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Approaching the Apocalypse: A Short History of Christian Millenarianism

John M. Court
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Description:Embracing two thousand years of intense and fiery admonition, Approaching the Apocalypse offers students of religion, history and politics the definitive handbook to Doomsday. Ideas about divinely-inspired disaster have an enduring place in the history of Christian thought. For centuries men and women have made preparations for the imminent end of the world, and for the thousand year reign of Christ and his saints. Inspired principally by the startling texts of the Book of Revelation, Christianity has a rich and varied tradition of looking forward to the purifying fires of Armageddon. But what do recurring motifs like the Rapture, pestilence, biblical prophecy and the building of the New Jerusalem really add up to? And how have interpretations of these patterns differed from century to century? Charting a steady course between the feverish predictions of early Christian heretics like the Montanists, and the febrile outpourings of modern-day millennialists such as the Branch Davidians and Christian Zionists in America, John M Court explores the continuities and differences between their violent visions of cataclysm. His history comprises an incisive analysis of such movements and figures as the Levellers and Diggers, James Jezreel and his Trumpeters, Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, cargo-cults and drug cultures. Approaching the Apocalypse shows why prophecies of plague, earthquake and flame continue to resonate so powerfully in the Christian imagination, and beyond.A wide-ranging and accessible study of millennial thought and its implications for Christian history.' - Christopher Rowland, Dean Ireland Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, University of OxfordWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Approaching the Apocalypse: A Short History of Christian Millenarianism. To get started finding Approaching the Apocalypse: A Short History of Christian Millenarianism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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249
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I. B. Tauris & Company
Release
2014
ISBN
0857710451

Approaching the Apocalypse: A Short History of Christian Millenarianism

John M. Court
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Description: Embracing two thousand years of intense and fiery admonition, Approaching the Apocalypse offers students of religion, history and politics the definitive handbook to Doomsday. Ideas about divinely-inspired disaster have an enduring place in the history of Christian thought. For centuries men and women have made preparations for the imminent end of the world, and for the thousand year reign of Christ and his saints. Inspired principally by the startling texts of the Book of Revelation, Christianity has a rich and varied tradition of looking forward to the purifying fires of Armageddon. But what do recurring motifs like the Rapture, pestilence, biblical prophecy and the building of the New Jerusalem really add up to? And how have interpretations of these patterns differed from century to century? Charting a steady course between the feverish predictions of early Christian heretics like the Montanists, and the febrile outpourings of modern-day millennialists such as the Branch Davidians and Christian Zionists in America, John M Court explores the continuities and differences between their violent visions of cataclysm. His history comprises an incisive analysis of such movements and figures as the Levellers and Diggers, James Jezreel and his Trumpeters, Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, cargo-cults and drug cultures. Approaching the Apocalypse shows why prophecies of plague, earthquake and flame continue to resonate so powerfully in the Christian imagination, and beyond.A wide-ranging and accessible study of millennial thought and its implications for Christian history.' - Christopher Rowland, Dean Ireland Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, University of OxfordWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Approaching the Apocalypse: A Short History of Christian Millenarianism. To get started finding Approaching the Apocalypse: A Short History of Christian Millenarianism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
249
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
I. B. Tauris & Company
Release
2014
ISBN
0857710451

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