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World without end : mainstream American Protestant visions of the last things, 1880-1925 /

"In the nineteenth century, many American Protestants expected almost limitless, orderly progress as Christianity and democracy spread and as technology and prosperity increased. Yet they also believed that, many centuries hence, after progress had run its course, the Second Coming of Jesus and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moorhead, James H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©1999.
Colección:Religion in North America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The postmillennial tradition, 1800-1880
  • Prophecy, the Bible, and Millennialism
  • Millennial dreams and other last things
  • "A summary court in perpetual session"
  • A kingdom "as wide as the earth itself"
  • The Kingdom of God and the efficiency engineer
  • Efficiency and the kngdom in a world at war
  • The Fundamentalist controversy and ceyond.