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Approaching the apocalypse [electronic resource] : a short history of Christian millenarianism / John M. Court.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2008.Description: xv, 232 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781845117580
  • 1845117581
  • 9781845117597 (pbk.)
  • 184511759X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 2.36.909 22
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Contents:
Introduction -- The roots of the idea -- The biblical basis -- The return of Christ -- Millenarians among the church fathers -- Apocalypse then : the year 1000 -- Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135-1202 CE) -- The Black Death and other plagues -- Apocalypse and civil war (1500 CE and after) -- Edward Irving (1792-1834 CE) and the Catholic Apostolic movement -- Across the pond -- Joanna Southcott (1750-1814 CE) and her followers -- J.J. Jezreel : the trumpeter and his tower -- An Anglican Israel at the end of time : the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury -- 'Somewhere a place for us' : modern utopias -- Christian missions and the cargo cults -- Figures of the Messiah : David Koresh and the Waco siege -- 'Apocalypse now' : celebrating the millennium on or after 2000 CE.
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Includes bibliographical references ([219]-224) and index.

Introduction -- The roots of the idea -- The biblical basis -- The return of Christ -- Millenarians among the church fathers -- Apocalypse then : the year 1000 -- Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135-1202 CE) -- The Black Death and other plagues -- Apocalypse and civil war (1500 CE and after) -- Edward Irving (1792-1834 CE) and the Catholic Apostolic movement -- Across the pond -- Joanna Southcott (1750-1814 CE) and her followers -- J.J. Jezreel : the trumpeter and his tower -- An Anglican Israel at the end of time : the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury -- 'Somewhere a place for us' : modern utopias -- Christian missions and the cargo cults -- Figures of the Messiah : David Koresh and the Waco siege -- 'Apocalypse now' : celebrating the millennium on or after 2000 CE.

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