Preaching in the Last Days: The Theme of 'Two Witnesses' in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

by Rodney L. Petersen

Visionary strength was given to the piety, polity, and political activity of Protestantism in its formative periods through the way in which the Apocalypse was read. By identifying with the text depicting two witnesses, or prophets, who preach at the end of history, are slain by the beast from the abyss (understood to be Antichrist), and rise again victoriously, representatives of the Protestant movement found a measure of self-identity. This text,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195073746
• ISBN13: 9780195073744
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"