Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1. Millenarianism and the Dynamics of Apocalyptic Time
• Richard Landes
• 2. Millenarianism and Violence in the Contemporary World
• John Walliss
• 3. The Eschatology of Heaven's Gate
• Christopher Partridge
• 4. Millennialism in Contemporary Israeli Politics
• Brenda E. Brasher
• 5. Millennialism, Ecumenism, and Fundamentalis
• Andrew Pierce
• 6. The Liberal Antichrist Left Behind in America
• Darryl Jones
• 7. After Left Behind and the Paradox of Evangelical Pessimism
• Crawford Gribben
• 8. The Davidian Seventh-day Adventists and Millennial Expectation, 1959-2004
• Kenneth G. C. Newport
• 9. The Branch Davidians and Religion Reporting
• Catherine Wessinger
• 10. Tensions in Dispensational Eschatology
• Mark S. Sweetnam
• 11. Forty Years of Millenarian Thought in the Charismatic Movement
• Stephen J. Hunt
• 12. Southcottian Sects from 1790 to the Present Day
• Gordon Allan
• 13. The Future of Millennial Expectation
• Crawford Gribben
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Kenneth Newport (Ph.D. Oxford) is Professor of Christian Thought at Liverpool Hope University. Crawford Gribben (Ph.D. Strathclyde) is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester. Crawford Gribben (Ph.D. Strathclyde) is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester.

Reviews

This is a difficult book to put down, but it's well worth picking up. --Eileen Barker, London School of Economics

Recommended. Academic and public libraries; upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers, and general readers. -- CHOICE