James H Moorhead

World Without End

Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925

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Produktbeschreibung

The sense of an End vanished with the arrival of the new millennium.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780253335807
• ISBN-10: 0253335809
• Artikelnr.: 21018578

Autorenporträt

James H. Moorhead is the Mary McIntosh Bridge Professor of American Church History at Princeton Theological Seminary. He previously taught at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The author of American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869, Mr. Moorhead is also senior editor of The Journal of Presbyterian History.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Postmillennial Tradition, 1800-1880
1. Prophecy, the Bible, and Millennialism
2. Millennial Dreams and Other Last Things
3. "A Summary Court in Perpetual Session"
4. "A Kingdom as Wide as the Earth Itself"
5. The Kingdom of God and the Efficiency Engineer
6. Efficiency and the Kingdom in a World at War
7. The Fundamentalist Controversy and Beyond
Epilogue