Apocalypse then : prophecy and the making of the modern world / Arthur H. Williamson.
An introduction to the Apocalypse and an explanation as to why many of Europe and America's most creative minds (Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish) believed that they were living in the latter days of the world and the culmination of human history.
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
2008.
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| Series: | Praeger series on the early modern world.
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Table of Contents:
- Encountering the beast
- Apocalypse revived: the Reformation
- The last world empire and its competitors
- Prophecy and nature: science, sex, and salvation
- The British revolutions: the rise of modern politics
- Prophecy and science II: physics, geology, and the eschaton
- Apocalyptic conscience in crisis: Quakers, Jews, and other subversives
- Prophecy, enlightenment, and the democratic revolutions
- Novus ordo saeculorum: the rise of the redeemer republic
- Antichrist in the postapocalyptic age.