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Overview

This volume of essays offers a detailed account of the impact of evangelical millennialism in nineteenth century Britain and Ireland and includes a comprehensive bibliography and essay charting recent trends in the study of millennialism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781597527378
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	09/01/2007
Series:	Studies in Evangelical History and Thought
Pages:	227
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Crawford Gribben has taught in Scotland, Ireland and Switzerland, and is currently Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture, University of Manchester. He is the author of The Puritan Millennium: Literature and Theology, 1550-1682 (2000). Timothy C. F. Stunt has taught in England, Switzerland and the USA. He has contributed numerous articles to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and is the author of From Awakening to Secession: Radical Evangelicals in Switzerland and Britain, 1815-1835 (2000), for which he was awarded a Cambridge PhD.

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From the Publisher

"The best historical work balances two different tasks—fair treatment of the subjects studied and perceptive analysis of how and why they acted or believed as they did. In these terms, 'Prisoners of Hope?' is a model volume. It treats the millennial beliefs of nineteenth-century British and Irish evangelical Protestants as significant truth claims in themselves, but also as revealing indications of involvements in broader political, social, and ecclesiastical contexts. The book offers fresh reading as well as fresh stimulus for further research."
—Mark Noll, Wheaton College

"This is a well-written, well-edited and important book. At a time when—enflamed by the events of 9/11 and its aftermath—an apocalyptic fever is running high in some parts of the Christian tradition, it is important that we all understand something of the enduring persistance of the millennial dream. This book is a significant contribution to that task."
—Kenneth G. C. Newport, Liverpool Hope University

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Editorial Reviews

"The best historical work balances two different tasks—fair treatment of the subjects studied and perceptive analysis of how and why they acted or believed as they did. In these terms, 'Prisoners of Hope?' is a model volume. It treats the millennial beliefs of nineteenth-century British and Irish evangelical Protestants as significant truth claims in themselves, but also as revealing indications of involvements in broader political, social, and ecclesiastical contexts. The book offers fresh reading as well as fresh stimulus for further research."
—Mark Noll, Wheaton College

"This is a well-written, well-edited and important book. At a time when—enflamed by the events of 9/11 and its aftermath—an apocalyptic fever is running high in some parts of the Christian tradition, it is important that we all understand something of the enduring persistance of the millennial dream. This book is a significant contribution to that task."
—Kenneth G. C. Newport, Liverpool Hope University

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