Johnston Revelation Restored: The Apocalypse in Later Seventeenth-Century England

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84615-981-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 27, 316 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Modern British Religious History

An analysis of the nature of apocalyptic and millennial beliefs that reveals concerns prominent in England in the early seventeenth century had not abated after 1660.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston, Warren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Conventions in Restoration apocalyptic interpretation
The apocalypse, radicalism, and reaction in the early Restoration
The apocalypse and moderate nonconformity
The Anglican apocalypse
The Popish Plot and apocalyptic expectation
Apocalyptic thought and the Revolution of 1688-89
Conclusion: the apocalypse to 1700

Über Autor(innen)

Johnston Warren:
WARREN JOHNSTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English and History at Algoma University, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Revelation Restored: The Apocalypse in Later Seventeenth Century England (Boydell Press, 2011).