Great and Holy War

Philip Jenkins is the Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. He has published articles and op-ed pieces in The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe and is a regular on radio shows. He was educated at Cambridge and has written over twenty books including The Lost History of Christianity, Jesus Wars, and The Next Christendom and over a hundred articles and reviews. He has won several book prizes in both the Christian and secular arena.

• CONTENTSList of Maps viiA Note About Terminology ixIntroduction: From Angels to Armageddon 1ONE The Great War: The Age of Massacre 29TWO God’s War: Chris tian Nations, Holy Warfare, and the Kingdom of God 63THREE Witnesses for Christ: Cosmic War, Sacrifi ce, and Martyrdom 87FOUR The Ways of God: Faith, Heresy, and Superstition 109FIVE The War of the End of the World: Visions of the Last Days 135SIX Armageddon: Dreams of Apocalypse in the War’s Savage Last Year 163SEVEN The Sleep of Religion: Europe’s Crisis and the Rise of Secular Messiahs 189EIGHT The Ruins of Christendom: Reconstructing Chris tian Faith at the End of the Age 217NINE A New Zion: The Crisis of European Judaism and the Vision of a New World 235TEN Those from Below: The Spiritual Liberation of the World’s Subject Peoples 269ELEVEN Genocide: The Destruction of the Oldest Chris tian World 287TWELVE African Prophets: How New Churches and New Hopes Arose Outside Europe 315THIRTEEN Without a Caliph: The Muslim Quest for a Godly Political Order 333Conclusion 367Acknowledgments 379Illustration Credits 381Notes 383Index 419

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