Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution

by Susan Juster

Book Overview

The age of revolution, in which kings were dethroned, radical ideals of human equality embraced, and new constitutions written, was also the age of prophecy. Neither an archaic remnant nor a novel practice, prophecy in the eighteenth century was rooted both in the primitive worldview of the Old Testament and in the vibrant intellectual environment of the philosophers and their political allies, the republicans. In Doomsayers: Anglo-American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812219511
• ISBN13: 9780812219517
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"