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Fearful hope : approaching the new millennium / edited by Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine.

Contributor(s): Kleinhenz, Christopher | LeMoine, Fannie
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1999Description: xiv, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0299164349 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0299164306 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Millennialism -- Congresses | Millennialism -- History of doctrines -- CongressesDDC classification: 236/.9 LOC classification: BT891 | .F43 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: three millennial themes / Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine -- The sense of an ending in pre-Christian Judaism / John J. Collins -- Hope for the millennium in the early church: expectation for this world? / Henry Chadwick -- "To the scandal of men, women are prophesying": female seers of the high middle ages / Bernard McGinn -- Beyond the apocalypse: the human Antichrist in late medieval illustrated manuscripts / Richard K. Emmerson -- Madness and the millennium at Münster, 1534-1535 / H.C. Erik Midelfort -- Apocalypticism in Russian literature: a brief portrait / David M. Bethea -- The apocalyptic in the twentieth century / Paul Boyer -- End-time paranoia: conspiracy thinking at the millennium's close / Michael Barkun -- Hope in the face of crisis / Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland -- Christian faith and witness amidst political oppression: a glance back to church life in East Germany 1970-1990 / Bishop Johannes Hempel -- Apocalyptic experience and the conversion of women in early Christianity / Fannie J. LeMoine -- Abbot Joachim of Fiore: a reformist apocalyptic / E. Randolph Daniel -- Early Protestant views of the Book of Revelation / Robert M. Kingdon -- American Puritans and millennialism / Sargent Bush, Jr.

Introduction: three millennial themes / Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine -- The sense of an ending in pre-Christian Judaism / John J. Collins -- Hope for the millennium in the early church: expectation for this world? / Henry Chadwick -- "To the scandal of men, women are prophesying": female seers of the high middle ages / Bernard McGinn -- Beyond the apocalypse: the human Antichrist in late medieval illustrated manuscripts / Richard K. Emmerson -- Madness and the millennium at Münster, 1534-1535 / H.C. Erik Midelfort -- Apocalypticism in Russian literature: a brief portrait / David M. Bethea -- The apocalyptic in the twentieth century / Paul Boyer -- End-time paranoia: conspiracy thinking at the millennium's close / Michael Barkun -- Hope in the face of crisis / Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland -- Christian faith and witness amidst political oppression: a glance back to church life in East Germany 1970-1990 / Bishop Johannes Hempel -- Apocalyptic experience and the conversion of women in early Christianity / Fannie J. LeMoine -- Abbot Joachim of Fiore: a reformist apocalyptic / E. Randolph Daniel -- Early Protestant views of the Book of Revelation / Robert M. Kingdon -- American Puritans and millennialism / Sargent Bush, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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