TY  - BOOK
AU  - Court,John M.
TI  - Approaching the apocalypse: a short history of Christian millenarianism 
SN  - 9781845117580
U1  - 2.36.909 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Millennialism
KW  - History
KW  - Eschatology
KW  - Second Advent
KW  - Millennium (Eschatology)
N1  - 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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