The Reflected Future. Christan Eschatology to the Test of Religions

Abstract

This work seeks to bring out the relevance of the eschatological question from within the functioning of language itself. Thus, from the application of certain results of semiotic research to the “serious case” of apocalyptic iconism, two facts seem to emerge: while Christ, in addition to being the image of the Father, as the Coming One, is the perfect reflection of the Unavailable Future, religious images, in general, are generated by phenomena that are both projective and reflective. If, on the one hand, apocalypticism must be more properly understood as a “metahistorical teleology,” on the other hand, the eschatological representations of others cannot fail to interest Christianity, which has always been nourished by the imagery of the religious groups with which it has come into direct and indirect contact.