Approaching the apocalypse
Subtitle: a short history of Christian millenarianism
By: John M. Court.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781845117580; 9781845117597
Subjects: Millennialism -- History; Eschatology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Second Advent; Millennium (Eschatology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([219]-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The roots of the idea; title: The biblical basis; title: The return of Christ; title: Millenarians among the church fathers; title: Apocalypse then : the year 1000; title: Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135-1202 CE); title: The Black Death and other plagues; title: Apocalypse and civil war (1500 CE and after); title: Edward Irving (1792-1834 CE) and the Catholic Apostolic movement; title: Across the pond; title: Joanna Southcott (1750-1814 CE) and her followers; title: J.J. Jezreel : the trumpeter and his tower; title: An Anglican Israel at the end of time : the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury; title: 'Somewhere a place for us' : modern utopias; title: Christian missions and the cargo cults; title: Figures of the Messiah : David Koresh and the Waco siege; title: 'Apocalypse now' : celebrating the millennium on or after 2000 CE.