consolation upon the insane expectation that what is lost will be given back, not as heroic wisdom (death has been robbed of its tragic beauty) but as the gift it always was.”55 But what is the “end” eschatology speaks of? A notoriously polyvalent term, “end” can mean both completion (that is, coming or bringing to an end)56 or fulfillment (as in the Greek term telos). Both meanings are present in the Christian eschatological expectation.57 P. Tillich saw this in his highly nuanced discussion of