Author: James BichenoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Signs of the Time; Or the Overthrow of the Papal Tyranny in France
Author: James BichenoThe Signs of the Times ... Second Edition, with Large Additions
Author: James BICHENOThe Signs of the Times
Author: James BichenoA Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: William UpcottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Supplement to the Catalogue of English Theology, Published in February, 1829, Now on Sale at the Low Prices Affixed
Author: William StrongRespectable Folly
Author: Clarke GarrettPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421431769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Originally published in 1975. The French Revolution generated a wave of popular piety and religious excitement in both France and England, where millenarians—prophets of the millennium—attempted to interpret the Revolution as the fulfillment of the predictions of Daniel and St. John the Divine. This study discusses the millenarian ideal in the context of the intellectual and religious attitudes of the time. Rejecting interpretations of millenarianism that chalk it up to class struggle or mass hysteria, Garrett stresses the interaction between politics and religion, viewing the phenomenon as the interpretation, by a varied assortment of individuals, of coincident political events in eschatological terms. Faced with a change as significant as the French Revolution, people found in the prophetic books of the Bible an understanding of what was happening to them. If the Revolution was God's will, if its development had been foretold, then surely the final outcome would be beneficial, at least for the faithful. Political events became eschatological events, and dangers and misfortunes became simply the chastisements that a fallen world must undergo before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ can redeem it. Although some of the beliefs may now seem bizarre, Garrett shows that, at the time, they attracted many followers for whom these ideas were both reasonable and respectable. Focusing on the careers of three millenarians—Suzette Labrousse, Catherine Théot, and Richard Brothers—Garrett tries to understand these prophets as persons rather than dismiss them as fanatics. Their prominence resulted from their success in transmitting a new political consciousness through familiar religious imagery. While the Revolution gave urgency and tangible reality to millenarian convictions, Labrousse, Théot, and others were convinced, well before the Revolution, that they were the bearers of divine revelations and thus welcomed the Revolution as confirmation of their own missions.
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Author: The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
The Old Enemies
Author: Michael WheelerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521828104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
This wide-ranging, well-illustrated study explores how the ancient divisions between Catholics and Protestants continued in the Victorian age.
Christian Zionism and English National Identity, 1600–1850
Author: Andrew CromePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319771949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book explores why English Christians, from the early modern period onwards, believed that their nation had a special mission to restore the Jews to Palestine. It examines English support for Jewish restoration from the Whitehall Conference in 1655 through to public debates on the Jerusalem Bishopric in 1841. Rather than claiming to replace Israel as God’s “elect nation”, England was “chosen” to have a special, but inferior, relationship with the Jews. Believing that God “blessed those who bless” the Jewish people, this national role allowed England to atone for ill-treatment of Jews, read the confusing pathways of providence, and guarantee the nation’s survival until Christ’s return. This book analyses this mode of national identity construction and its implications for understanding Christian views of Jews, the self, and “the other”. It offers a new understanding of national election, and of the relationship between apocalyptic prophecy and political action.