Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Postmillennial Tradition, 1800-1880
1. Prophecy, the Bible, and Millennialism
2. Millennial Dreams and Other Last Things
3. "A Summary Court in Perpetual Session"
4. "A Kingdom as Wide as the Earth Itself"
5. The Kingdom of God and the Efficiency Engineer
6. Efficiency and the Kingdom in a World at War
7. The Fundamentalist Controversy and Beyond
Epilogue

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How belief in spiritual and material progress supplanted the Apocalypse in the world view of mainstream American Protestantism.

About the Author

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.