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Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture : Volume III The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics, and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / edited by James E. Force, Richard H. Popkin

Dordrecht : Springer, 2001

Online-Ressource (224 p) : digital

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Preface. Introduction. Essay 1: The Appropriation of Joseph Mede. Millenarianism in the 1640s -- Essay 2: Britain and the Beast: The Apocalypse and the Seventeenth-Century Debate about the Creation of the British State -- Essay 3: A Whig Apocalypse: Millenarianism, Astrology, and Politics in the Restoration Crisis, 1678-1683 -- Essay 4: Boyle on Knowledge of Nature in the Afterlife -- Essay 5: Robert Boyle, the Conversion of the Jews, and Millennial Expectations -- Essay 6: The Virgin, the Dynamo, and Newton's Prophetic History -- Essay 7: `The Mystery of This Restitution of All Things': Isaac Newton on the Return of the Jews -- Essay 8: The Occult Bible: Hebraic Millenarianism in Eighteenth-Century England -- Essay 9: David and Goliath: Jewish Conversion and Philosemitism in Late-Eighteenth-Century Millenarian Thought -- Essay 10: Caveat Emptor: Pre- and Postmillennialism in the Late Reformation -- Essay 11: The Eschatology of Everyday Things, England, 1600-1800 -- Index.

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LOC-SH: Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Philosophy—History.

The influence of millenarian thinking upon Cromwell's England is well-known. Less well examined, perhaps, has been the cultural and intellectual conceptions of the role of millenarian ideas in the `long' eighteenth century when, so the `official' story goes, the religious sceptics and deists of Enlightened England effectively tarred such religious radicalism as `enthusiasm'. In this collection of essays, we endeavour to revise this `official' story and to trace the influence of millenarian ideas in the science, politics, and everyday life of England and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries