| World Without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925 Contributor(s): Moorhead, James H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253335809 ISBN-13: 9780253335807 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1999 Annotation: "In this compelling intellectual and social history, Moorhead argues that for mainline Protestants in the late 19th century, time became endless, human-directed and without urgency.... Moorhead offers some brilliant observations about the legacy of postmillennialism and the human need for a definitive eschaton." -- Publishers Weekly In the 19th century American Protestants firmly believed that when progress had run its course, there would be a Second Coming of Christ, the world would come to a supernatural End, and the predictions in the Apocalypse would come to pass. During the years covered in James Moorhead's study, however, moderate and liberal mainstream Protestants transformed this postmillennialism into a hope that this world would be the scene for limitless spiritual improvement and temporal progress. The sense of an End vanished with the arrival of the new millennium. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Eschatology - Religion | Christian Theology - General |
| Dewey: 236.909 |
| LCCN: 99024448 |
| Series: Religion in North America |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.39" W x 9.53" (1.20 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 1920's - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this compelling intellectual and social history, Moorhead argues that for mainline Protestants in the late 19th century, time became endless, human-directed and without urgency. . . . Moorhead offers some brilliant observations about the legacy of postmillennialism and the human need for a definitive eschaton. --Publishers Weekly In the 19th century American Protestants firmly believed that when progress had run its course, there would be a Second Coming of Christ, the world would come to a supernatural End, and the predictions in the Apocalypse would come to pass. During the years covered in James Moorhead's study, however, moderate and liberal mainstream Protestants transformed this postmillennialism into a hope that this world would be the scene for limitless spiritual improvement and temporal progress. The sense of an End vanished with the arrival of the new millennium. |