Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756-1800

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Cambridge University Press, 26 Şub 1988 - 291 sayfa
An account of the role of millennial thinking in the age of the American Revolution, this book demonstrates the popularity and diffusion of millennial expectations among several types of American Protestants by the middle of the eighteenth century and illuminates the way these hopes shaped the understanding of the Revolution and the symbolic meaning of the new nation. Unlike most previous works, this study extends well beyond the social and geographic perimeters of the New England clergy and is based on a wide range of secular as well as religious literature. The book not only sheds light on the role of religion in the American Revolution, but it also surveys an important facet of the intellectual history of the early Republic. Analysing the interplay of millennial, republican and Enlightenment ideas about the future, the author reveals both complementary and contradictory themes in American thought of an older cultural tradition of millennialism while at the same time tracing variations and changes within that tradition during this formative period of American history.

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Millennialism and the origins of AngloAmerican
3
Colonial millennialism on the eve of the revolutionary
22
THE RISE AND DECLINE OF MILLENNIALISM IN
51
The revolutionary millennialism of the 1770s
75
Visions of progress and ruin in the Critical Period
94
Exegesis
119
Francophilic millennialism and partisan Republican
150
Biblical millennialism and radical Enlightened
187
Francophobic reaction and evangelical activism
202
Notes
233
Index
285
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