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A History of the End of the World (53 page)
Revelation: Its Grand Climax at Hand!
Brooklyn: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, 1988.
Robertson, Pat.
The New World Order.
Dallas: Word Publishing, 1991.
Rowley, H. H.
The Relevance of Apocalyptic: A Study of Jewish and Christian Apocalypses from Daniel to the Revelation.
New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d.
Schaff, Philip, and Henry Wace, eds.
Eusebius. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church,
2nd ser., vol. 1. 1890. Reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1997.
Scholem, Gershom.
The Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality.
New York: Schocken Books, 1995. First published 1971.
Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth.
The Apocalypse.
Chicago: Francisco Herald Press, 1976.
———.
The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment.
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985.
Scofield, C. I., ed.
The Scofield Reference Bible.
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1945. First Published 1909.
The Seventh Seal.
Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Screenplay by Ingmar Bergman. Commentary by Peter Cowie. Criterion Collection, 1987. Original release: Svensk Filmindustri, 1957.
Shaw, Eve.
Eve of Destruction: Prophecies, Theories, and Preparations for the End of the World.
Los Angeles: Lowell House, 1996.
Shirer, William L.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Smith, John Holland.
Constantine the Great.
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Sontag, Susan.
Against Interpretation.
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Stark, Freya.
Alexander’s Path.
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1988. First published 1958.
Stein, Stephen J., ed.
Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age.
Vol. 3 of
The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism.
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The Apocalypse of St. John: Lectures on the Book of Revelation.
Hudson, NY: Anthroposophic Press, 1993. First published 1945 in German.
Suskind, Ron. “Without a Doubt.”
New York Times,
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The End of Time: Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium.
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Terminal Visions: The Literature of Last Things.
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Los Angeles Times,
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Tapes 1 and 2 of
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Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillenarianism 1875–1982.
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Wendell, Barrett.
Cotton Mather: The Puritan Priest.
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Yarbro Collins, Adela.
Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse.
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Abbo of Fleury
Abelard, Peter
Against Heresies
(Irenaeus)
Against the Jews
(Joachim of Fiore)
Against the Jews and Their Lies
(Luther)
Akenson, Donald Harman
Akiva, Rabbi
Alexander the Great
Alexander Jannaeus
alphanumeric code (666)
American politics: apocalyptic activism as part of; fundamentalism role in modern; God-less apocalypse role in
American Prospect
Amos
The Animal Apocalypse
Antichrist: Apocalyptic tradition on; beast description of; candidates for the; challenge of interpreting Revelation’s; Jerusalem Temple rebuilt by; Joachim’s vision of; medieval Christianity tradition on; Revelation’s representation of; Satan as; 666 alphanumeric code for; slain by Jesus Christ; technological manifestations of; Tribulation and the.
See also
beast
Antiochus IV (Antiochus Epiphanes)
Anti-Semitism
apocalypse: definitions of; Revelation known as.
See also
the God-less apocalypse; Revelation
The Apocalypse of Adam
Apocalypse of Paul
The Apocalypse of St. John
(Der)
The Apocalypse of the Virgin Mary
The Apocalypse of Weeks
apocalyptic science fiction films
apocalyptic texts:
The Animal Apocalypse
; book of Daniel as;
The Book of Thunder
; earlier influences on; end-times prophecies included in; first book of Enoch; Jewish tradition of; Little Apocalypse of the Gospels as; Pseudepigrapha (“false writings”) included as;
The Shepherd of Hermas
apocalyptic tradition: alienation experience reflected by; Americanization of the; on Anti-God idea; book of Enoch’s influence on; culture war contribution to; as the history of a delusion; imagery during medieval era; medieval development of; modern manifestations of; origins of; persecution element of.
See also
end-times prophecies; God-less apocalypse
Approaching Hoofbeats: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(Graham)
Arabella
(1630 ship)
Arjomand, Saïd Amir
Artemesium (Greek temple)
The Astronomical Book
Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria
atomic bomb (code name Trinity) [1945]
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
Aum Shinrikyo cult
author.
See
Revelation author
“The Babylonian Captivity”
Babylonian Exile
Bacon, Roger
Bakker, Jim
Balaam
Balfour Declaration (1917)
Barkun, Michael
Barnhouse, Donald Grey
Bartholomew Fair
(Jonson)
Baruch
beast: mark of the; Revelation symbolism of.
See also
Antichrist
Beatus of Liébana
The Beginning of the End
(LaHaye)
Beguines community
Belial
Bell, George
Benedict IX, Pope
Benedict XI, Pope
Bergman, Ingmar
Berrigan, Daniel
Black Death
Blackstone, William Eugene
Blake, William
Bloom, Harold
Bockelson, Jan (Jan van Leiden)
Bonfire of the Vanities
Boniface VIII, Pope
book of Daniel.
See also
Daniel
The Book of Dreams
book of Enoch
The Book of J
(Rosenberg)
The Book of Prophecies
(Columbus)
The Book of Thunder
The Book of Watchers
Boyer, Paul
Branch Davidians cult (Waco)
The Bridal Call
(Foursquare Gospel)
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
(film)
Bush, George, Sr.
Bush, George W.
Calvin, John
Carlson, C. C.
Carter, Jimmy
Casale, Ubertino da
Cedars of Lebanon Prophecy (Tripoli Prophecy)
Celestine V, Pope
Cerinthus
Charles I (King of England)
Charles VIII (King of France)
Chosen People: afflictions sent to;
covenant between God and.
See also
Jewish people
Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God
(Miles)
Christ and Antichrist
(third century)
Christ in the Army
(Civil War sermons)
Christian fundamentalism: Apocalypse and development of; apocalypse subculture of; focus on Israel; Left Behind series phenomenon of; movies produced by; political role of modern
Christianity: America’s Great Awakenings (eighteenth century) and; Antichrist depiction of medieval; Constantine’s conversion to; dualism notion of; marginal status of Revelation in early; Protestant Reformation and; stated mission of.
See also
Roman Catholic Church
Christians: John on expected behavior of; John on martyred; persecution of
Christian Zionism
Chronological, Certain, and Irrefutable Proof
(Raimarus)
Church of Latter-Day Saints
The Church Militant and Triumphant
City of God
(Augustine)
Civil War
Clinton, Bill
Cohn, Norman
Cole, K. C.
Collins, Adela Yarbro
Collins, John J.
Columbus, Christopher
Colwell, Ernest Cadman
Constantine, Emperor
Cotton, John
Council of Laodicea
Cromwell, Oliver
Crusades
culture war: Jewish Kulturkampf form of; Revelation role in Catholic/Protestant
Cyril of Jerusalem
Damian, Peter
Daniel.
See also
book of Daniel
Dante, Alighieri
Darby, John Nelson
“The Day of Doom” (Wigglesworth)
The Days of Noah
(DeHaan)
Dead Sea Scrolls
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(Gibbon)
DeHaan, M. R.
Deus Irae
(Dick and Zelazny)
Dick, Philip K.
The Didache
Diocletian
Dionysius of Alexandria
Dionysius Exiguus
Disaster and the Millennium
(Barkun)
The Divine Comedy
(Dante)
Domesday Boke (Doomsday Book)
Domingo de Guzman
Domitian Caesar
Donatists
doomsday devices
Dr. Strangelove
(film)
dualist theology
Dubnow, Simon
Eddy, Mary Baker
Edson, Hiram
Edwards, Jonathan
Ehrman, Bart
88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988
(Whisenant)
Ekkehard of Aur
Ellul, Jacques
Emmerson, Richard K.
The End of Days
(Gorenberg)
end-times prophecies: apocalyptic texts inclusion of; book of Daniel; characters and events of; Christian Zionists on role of Jewish people; common features of; fundamentalism apocalypse subculture based on; by Jesus; Joachim’s interpretations of; John on punishments for enemies of God; on millennium; as mistaken and failed; moral risk of contemplating; natural phenomenon/freak of nature signs of; Paul’s epistles on; on rebuilding of Roman Empire; religious propaganda based on; on the Tribulation; two witnesses vision; Year 1000 link to.
See also
apocalyptic tradition; prophecy/prophecies; Revelation; Second Coming
The End of Time
(Thompson)
Enoch
Ephesus