Concept

World to come

Overview

Belief that the current age will be replaced by a better world, age, or paradise

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed World to come

• David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas

Related ideas

• Jesus
• Afterlife
• Heaven
• Kabbalah
• Kali Yuga
• Twelver Shi'ism
• Satya Yuga
• Mahabharata
• New Testament
• Sunni Islam
• Talmud
• Golden Age
• Zoroastrianism
• Messianic Age
• Kingship and kingdom of God
• Rabbinic literature
• Eschatology
• Atar

Opposing perspectives

• Cosmos

Place in the tradition

Part of Epicureanism.

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