Approaching the apocalypse a short history of Christian millenarianism /

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Hlavní autor: Court, John M.
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2008.
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Obsah:
  • 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.