Revelation restored : the apocalypse in later seventeenth-century England /

Revelation Restored is a study of apocalyptic thought in the later seventeenth century in England. It explores an under-examined aspect of early modern British history: despite the prominence of millenarian beliefs in historians' explanations of the early modern English church and state up to 1...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnston, Warren (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, N.Y. : The Boydell Press, [2011]
Series:Studies in modern British religious history ; v. 27.
Subjects:
1600-1699
Millennialism > England > History > 17th century.
End of the world.
Millénarisme > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Fin du monde.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Eschatology.
RELIGION > History.
End of the world
Millennialism
Religion
England > Religion > 17th century.
Angleterre > Religion > 17e siècle.
England
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Conventions in Restoration apocalyptic interpretation
  • 2. The apocalypse, radicalism, and reaction in the early Restoration
  • 3. The apocalypse and moderate nonconformity
  • 4. The Anglican apocalypse
  • 5. The Popish Plot and apocalyptic expectation
  • 6. Apocalyptic thought and the Revolution of 1688-1689
  • 7. Conclusion : the apocalypse to 1700.

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