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Prophecy And Eschatology In The Transatlantic World, 1550-1800 (christianities In The Trans-atlantic World)
by Andrew Crome /
2016 / English / PDF
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Prophecy and millennial speculation are often seen as having
played a key role in early European engagements with the new
world, from Columbus’s use of the predictions of Joachim of
Fiore, to the puritan ‘Errand into the Wilderness’. Yet
examinations of such ideas have sometimes presumed an overly
simplistic application of these beliefs in the lives of those who
held to them. This book explores the way in which prophecy and
eschatological ideas influenced poets, politicians, theologians,
and ordinary people in the Atlantic world from the sixteenth to
the late eighteenth century. Chapters cover topics ranging from
messianic claimants to the Portuguese crown to popular prophetic
almanacs in eighteenth-century New England; from eschatological
ideas in the poetry of George Herbert and Anne Bradstreet, to the
prophetic speculation surrounding the Evangelical revivals. It
highlights the ways in which prophecy and eschatology played a
key role in the early modern Atlantic world.
Prophecy and millennial speculation are often seen as having
played a key role in early European engagements with the new
world, from Columbus’s use of the predictions of Joachim of
Fiore, to the puritan ‘Errand into the Wilderness’. Yet
examinations of such ideas have sometimes presumed an overly
simplistic application of these beliefs in the lives of those who
held to them. This book explores the way in which prophecy and
eschatological ideas influenced poets, politicians, theologians,
and ordinary people in the Atlantic world from the sixteenth to
the late eighteenth century. Chapters cover topics ranging from
messianic claimants to the Portuguese crown to popular prophetic
almanacs in eighteenth-century New England; from eschatological
ideas in the poetry of George Herbert and Anne Bradstreet, to the
prophetic speculation surrounding the Evangelical revivals. It
highlights the ways in which prophecy and eschatology played a
key role in the early modern Atlantic world.