Prophecy and Eschatology in the Transatlantic World, 1550−1800

Prophecy and Eschatology in the Transatlantic World, 1550−1800
Author: Andrew Crome
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781349705146

Prophecy and millennial speculation are often seen as having played a key role in early European engagements with the new world, from Columbus’s use of the predictions of Joachim of Fiore, to the puritan ‘Errand into the Wilderness’. Yet examinations of such ideas have sometimes presumed an overly simplistic application of these beliefs in the lives of those who held to them. This book explores the way in which prophecy and eschatological ideas influenced poets, politicians, theologians, and ordinary people in the Atlantic world from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. Chapters cover topics ranging from messianic claimants to the Portuguese crown to popular prophetic almanacs in eighteenth-century New England; from eschatological ideas in the poetry of George Herbert and Anne Bradstreet, to the prophetic speculation surrounding the Evangelical revivals. It highlights the ways in which prophecy and eschatology played a key role in the early modern Atlantic world.

Henry More, 1614-1687

Henry More, 1614-1687
Author: R. Crocker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401702179

This is the first modern biography to place Henry More’s (1614-1687) religious and philosophical preoccupations centre-stage, and to provide a coherent interpretation of his work from a consideration of his own writings, their contexts and aims. It is also the first study of More to exploit the full range of his prolific writings and a number of unknown manuscripts relating to his life. It contains an annotated handlist of his extant correspondence.