Puritans, the Millennium and the Future of Israel: Puritan Eschatology 1600 to 1660

by Peter Toon

A collection of essays by several scholars, this book is an important study of the origins of post- and pre-millennialism in English theology. Initially, it is shown how the early Lutherans or reformers of the sixteenth century adopted the traditional Augustinian eschatology, a doctrine concerned with the end of the world or of humankind. It analyses how Luther paved the way for the interpretation of revelation not as heralding an apocalypse, but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0227171454
• ISBN13: 9780227171455
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: James Clarke Company
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"