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God's Strange Work William Miller and the End of the World

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ISBN-10: 0802803806

ISBN-13: 9780802803801

Edition: 2008

Authors: David L. Rowe, Mark Noll

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"Calvinist Baptist preacher William Miller (1782-1849) was the first prominent American popularizer of using biblical prophecy to determine a specific and imminent time for Christ's return to earth. On October 22, 1844 - a day known as the Great Disappointment - he and his followers gave away their possessions, abandoned their work, donned white robes, and ascended to rooftops and hilltops to await a Second Coming that never actually came. Or so the story goes." "Reflecting Rowe's meticulous research throughout, God's Strange Work does more than tell one man's remarkable story. It encapsulates the broader history of American Christianity in the time period and sets the stage for many…    
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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Publication date: 8/20/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

David L. Rowe (M.S., Ph.D., M.Div.) is a professor and the dean of spiritual life at Salt Lake Theological Seminary. He teaches courses in homiletics and communication, spiritual formation, cross-cultural ministry, worship theology, and biblical studies. He lives in Utah.

Mark A. Noll (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Francis McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is advisory editor forBooks & Cultureand subeditor for the newReligion in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Noll's main academic interests concern the interaction of Christianity and culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-American societies. He has published articles and reviews on a wide variety of subjects involving Christianity in modern history. Some of his many books includeThe Civil War as a Theological Crisis, Is the Reformation Over?, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the…    

Foreword
A Note on Quotations and Citations
Introduction
Whereby I Might Please God
The Society of a Superior Class of Men
How Has He Visited Me in My Nightly Dreams
A Feast of Reason
Go and Tell It to the World
My Heart Inclines More towards Them
I Am Coming On ...
Our Hearts Are Growing Weary of Thy So Long Delay
Epilogue: This Work, This Strange Work
Bibliography
Index