World without end: mainstream American Protestant visions of the last things, 1880-1925
(1999)
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[United States] : Indiana University Press : Made available through hoopla, 1999
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1 online resource
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9780253028501 (electronic bk.) MWT11801053, 0253028507 (electronic bk.) 11801053
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English
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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
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