Although the locus “eschatology” had often been a slighted doctrine in public theology until the twentieth century, God’s final judgment of humankind has usually played an important role in popular piety, certainly in part because of its final consequences for every human being. The Last Day, as the conclusion of the human narrative in this frame of existence, lends itself to depiction by graphic artists, composers and hymn writers, poets, and (rarely) playwrights.

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