Apocalypse how? : Baptist movements during the English Revolution / Mark R. Bell.

Author
Bell, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1975- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, ©2000.
Description
viii, 299 pages ; 24 cm

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    • "A study of the relation between religion and political thought during the English Revolution, Mark R. Bell's Apocalypse How? challenges early historical interpretations that portray the Baptists as politically inactive. This reexamination demonstrates that Baptists were close to the secular radicals who became known as the Levellers and to the more religious revolutionaries known as the Fifth Monarchists. The reintegration of the religious and political aspects of their thought reveals the Baptist movements to have been capable of generating support for both radical groups."
    • "Bell discusses the transformation of Baptists from an aggressively critical sect to one more accomodating to its larger culture. Bell identifies this development with two changes in the Baptists' views of the end time. The first of these was an overall decline in eschatological enthusiasm during the 1640s, while the second was the way apocalyptic language among Baptists gradually came to refer more to endorsing society than to transforming it. This engaging study is a solid contribution to the historiography of the earliest Baptists and of religion in England during the tumultuous seventeenth century."--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-288) and index.
    Contents
    • Part I. General Baptists and the Return of Christ :
    • 1. Reformation and revelation
    • 2. Kingdom and kings : the Baptists' apocalyptic perspective
    • 3. Baptist beginnings : John Smyth and the General Baptists
    • Part II. Particular Baptists in Babylon :
    • 4. King Jesus : Particular Baptists and London's gathered churches
    • 5. Definition and development : the Particular Baptist confessions of 1644 and 1646
    • 6. Responsible men and resistant saints : leaders and organization
    • 8. Further afield : Particular Baptists beyond London
    • Part III. "Unorthodox" Baptists :
    • 9. Fifth monarchists and Baptists
    • 10. Seventh-day Baptists
    • 11. Fifth-monarchist-Seventh-day Baptists and Thomas Tillam's palatinate apocalypse
    • Conclusion : Reflections before the end of things.
    ISBN
    • 0865546703 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780865546707 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    00035512
    OCLC
    43786334
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