Foreword
Introduction
Part I. Sociological Aspects
Sociological Dimensions of Christian Millenarianism/ Malcolm B.
Hamilton
Whose Time is it Anyway? Evangelicals, the Millennium and
Millenarianism/ Martyn Percy
Europe as Antichrist: North American Pre-Millenarianism/ Orestis
Lindermayer
The Rise, Fall, and Return of Post-Millenarianism/ Stephen Hunt
Part II. Historical Dimensions
Millenarian thought in the First-Century Church/ Stanley E.
Porter
Millenarianism in the Reformation and English Revolution/ Andrew
Bradstock
Medieval Millenarianism and Prophecy/ Diane Watt
"Our Unspeakable Comfort": Irving, Albury, and the Origins of the
Pretribulation Rapture/ Mark Patterson and Andrew Walker
Part III. Global Movements
The Revolutionary Dimension of Millenarianism: The Case of the
T'aiping Rebellion/ Stephen Hunt
The Heavenly Millennium of Seventh-Day Adventism/ Kenneth
Newport
En Route to the Marian Kingdom: Catholic Apocalypticism and the
Army of Mary/ Massimo Introvigne
The Millenarianism of the Pentecostal Movement/ Margaret Poloma
A Peruvian Messiah and the Retreat from the Apocalyse/ Damian
Thompson
Part IV. Syncretic and Cultist Forms
"All I am is Religion": David Koresh's Christian Millenarianism/
Eugene Gallagher
Peace, Persecution and Preparations for Yahshua's Return: The Case
of the Messianic Communities' Twelve Tribes/ Susan J. Palmer
New Age Millenarianism and its Christian Influences/ Michael
York
Violent Millenarianism with a Christian Touch: Syncretic Themes in
the Millennial Perspective of Aum Shinrikyo/ Ian Reader
Index
A highly informative survey of the sociological, historical, and global dimensions of Christian Millenarianism, including discussion of specific cults and sects.
STEPHEN HUNT is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Reading, England.
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