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Approaching the Apocalypse: A Short History of Christian Millenarianism
John M. Court
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Hardback. 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, this book explores the continuities and differences between their violent visions of cataclysm. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 426.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845117580
SKU
V9781845117580
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About John M. Court
John Court was Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies and Head of Department at the University of Kent at Canterbury. A former Editor of the prestigious Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, he is the author and editor of many books in his own right which include: The Penguin Dictionary of the Bible, The New Testament World, Reading ... Read more
Reviews for Approaching the Apocalypse: A Short History of Christian Millenarianism
"'From the Book of Daniel to the Left Behind novels of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, John M Court's Approaching the Apocalypse offers a fascinating history of the startling idea of the end of days within western cultural history. Covering a wealth of different historical and textual material, and opening a window on to 2000 years of Christian eschatological thinking, ... Read more