Messianic Revolution by David Katz

Messianic Revolution by David Katz

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Zusammenfassung

This text looks at the entire messianic religious experience and traces its traditions form the Middle Ages to the present, showing how the beliefs of many fringe, distressed, disenfranchised or purely mystical Christians have transmitted that tradition across a millennnium.

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Messianic Revolution by David Katz

From 12th-century Italy to today, by way of Columbus, Newton, the British Israelites and the Aryan Nation, the tradition of "messianic revolution" has formed a major undercurrent in Western history. All are united in their fixation on "the countdown to Armageddon" and plans to hasten Christ's Second Coming. From the "Great Disappointment" (when the world failed to end in 1844) were born the Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists, assorted white supremacists, and eventually the movement which led to mass suicide in Jonestown and the Oklahoma City bombing. In our time mainstream fundamentalists - even US President Ronald Reagan -have eagerly expected the End of Days, often envisaged as a nuclear holocaust. Such beliefs may seem terrifying or just absurd, but they are not going to go away. This incisive historical analysis provides the essential tools for understanding and combatting them.
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ISBN 13 9780140286717
ISBN 10 0140286713
Titel Messianic Revolution
Autor David Katz
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2000-06-29
Seitenanzahl 336
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