World Without End Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925

Name: World Without End Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925
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ISBN: 9780253335807

ISBN-10: 0253335809

ISBN-13: 9780253335807

Edition: 1999

Authors: James H. Moorhead

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In the nineteenth century, many American Protestants expected almost limitless, orderly progress as Christianity and democracy spread and as technology and prosperity increased. Yet they also believed that, many centuries hence, after progress had run its course, the Second Coming of Jesus and a supernatural End to the world would occur. If these Protestants had one foot in the world of steamships and the telegraph, the other remained firmly planted in the cosmos of the Apocalype--a universe where angels poured out vials of wrath, where the dead would rise again, and where the wicked would be cast forever into a lake of burning fire.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/22/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

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.



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Postmillennial Tradition, 1800-1880



Prophecy, the Bible, and Millennialism



Millennial Dreams and Other Last Things



"A Summary Court in Perpetual Session"



A Kingdom "as Wide as the Earth Itself"



The Kingdom of God and the Efficiency Engineer



Efficiency and the Kingdom in a World at War



The Fundamentalist Controversy and Beyond


Epilogue


Notes


Index