{"id":713,"date":"2010-11-29T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/eschatological-taxonomy\/"},"modified":"2010-11-29T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T23:50:00","slug":"eschatological-taxonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/eschatological-taxonomy.html","title":{"rendered":"Eschatological Taxonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It isn\u2019t every day that you encounter the word \u201ceschatological\u201d (or the word \u201ctaxonomy\u201d for that matter) outside of academic journals and books. But it is part of the title of <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5701722\/a-taxonomy-of-apocalyptic-scenarios\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a poster that appeared today at IO9<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/8\/2010\/11\/picture_121.png\"><\/p>\n<p>An interesting question is to ask where you think the eschatology of various Biblical writings belongs within this taxonomy. <\/p>\n<p>Just another point of intersection between the Bible and science fiction!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2362192673677932119?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn\u2019t every day that you encounter the word \u201ceschatological\u201d (or the word \u201ctaxonomy\u201d for that matter) outside of academic journals and books. But it is part of the title of a poster that appeared today at IO9: An interesting question is to ask where you think the eschatology of various Biblical writings belongs within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eschatological Taxonomy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It isn&#039;t every day that you encounter the word &quot;eschatological&quot; (or the word &quot;taxonomy&quot; for that matter) outside of academic journals and books. 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