Expecting the End

Kenneth Newport (Ph.D. Oxford) is Professor of Christian Thought at Liverpool Hope University. Crawford Gribben (Ph.D. Strathclyde) is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester.

• Preface1. Millenarianism and the Dynamics of Apocalyptic TimeRichard Landes2. Millenarianism and Violence in the Contemporary WorldJohn Walliss3. The Eschatology of Heaven's GateChristopher Partridge4. Millennialism in Contemporary Israeli PoliticsBrenda E. Brasher5. Millennialism, Ecumenism, and FundamentalisAndrew Pierce6. The Liberal Antichrist Left Behind in AmericaDarryl Jones7. After Left Behind and the Paradox of Evangelical PessimismCrawford Gribben8. The Davidian Seventh-day Adventists and Millennial Expectation, 1959-2004Kenneth G. C. Newport9. The Branch Davidians and Religion ReportingCatherine Wessinger10. Tensions in Dispensational EschatologyMark S. Sweetnam11. Forty Years of Millenarian Thought in the Charismatic MovementStephen J. Hunt12. Southcottian Sects from 1790 to the Present DayGordon Allan13. The Future of Millennial ExpectationCrawford GribbenNotesBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

This is a difficult book to put down, but it's well worth picking up. --Eileen Barker, London School of Economics