Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: apocalyptism as that found in the Branch Davidians, the Christian Identity Movement, and the New Age and Third Wave movements.Chapter 2 examines the theological implications of Premillennialism, Postrnille~ialism, and Amillennialism in Christian thought, with an extended treatment of themes at the heart of traditional Dispensational Premillennialism.Chapter 3 provides a helpful historical survey of the development of millennial themes from the early church up through modern times, with, as in the previous chapter, a disproportionate amount of space being devoted to Dispensationakm.The fourth chapter deals with the Christian date-setting tradition in such movements as Millerite Adventism and the Jehovah's Witnesses.As might be expected by this time in the book, especially lengthy treatments are provided for the views of such modern new evangelical date setters as Hal Lindsay and Pat Robertson.The fifth chapter samples a wide variety of millennia1 traditions, such as that found in American civil religion, Nazism, Marxism, Rastafarianism, Islam, the cargo cults, pyramid numerology, Nostradamus, the Bible Codes, and the widespread millennarian speculation in the Roman Catholic Church related to the Virgin Mary.
Author: Richard Rice
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2755065041