Approaching the apocalypse : a short history of Christian millenarianism

John M. Court
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2008
xv, 232 p. ; 22 cm.
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  • 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.
  • Includes bibliographical references ([219]-224) and index.
  • I.B. Tauris
  • 184511759X (pbk)
  • 9781845117597 (pbk)
  • text
  • volume
  • unmediated
  • https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/ALDc