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The theme of this volume is the nature and perception of time in millennial movements. The authors adopt a number of disciplinary approaches to the topic, analyzing millennial movements from the three Abrahamic faiths, as well as from the East.
"Apocalyptic expectations of Armageddon and a New Age have been a fixture of the American cultural landscape for centuries. With the year 2000 fast approaching, such millennial visions are becoming increasingly popular. In Arguing the Apocalypse Stephen O'Leary sheds new light o…
"Apocalyptic expectations of Armageddon and a New Age have been a fixture of the American cultural landscape for centuries. With the year 2000 fast approaching, such millennial visions are becoming increasingly popular. In Arguing the Apocalypse Stephen O'Leary sheds new light o…
"Apocalyptic expectations of Armageddon and a New Age have been a fixture of the American cultural landscape for centuries. With the year 2000 fast approaching, such millennial visions are becoming increasingly popular. In Arguing the Apocalypse Stephen O'Leary sheds new light o…
"Breaking with common views on Jewish proto-apocalyptic literature, in a postmodern manner, this work intertextually approaches one particular proto-apocalyptic text, Isaiah 24-27, the so-called 'Isaiah Apocalypse'. This reading finds that the Isaiah Apocalypse redeploys and con…
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"Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production - from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech c…
The 'Left Behind' series consist of novels that depict the rapture and apocalypse, with millions of copies in print. In 'Rapture Culture', Amy J. Frykholm explores this remarkable phenomenon, seeking to understand why American evangelicals find the idea of the rapture so compell…
"In the "twinkling of an eye" Jesus secretly returns to earth and gathers to him all believers. As they are taken to heaven, the world they leave behind is plunged into chaos. Cars and airplanes crash and people search in vain for loved ones. Plagues, famine, and suffering follo…
Plague, earthquake and flame: ideas about divinely-inspired disaster and prophecies of doom have an enduring place in the history of Christian thought. For centuries men and women have made preparations for the imminent end of the world, and for the thousand year reign of Christ…
