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Radical Prophet
The Mystics, Subversives and Visionaries Who Foretold the End of the World
Radical Prophet
The Mystics, Subversives and Visionaries Who Foretold the End of the World
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Christianity began with the conviction that the old order was finished. The mysterious, elusive and charismatic figure of Jesus proclaimed that a new era, the Kingdom of God, was dawning. Yet despite its success, and the conversion of the empire which had executed its founder, the religion he inspired was soon domesticated, its counter-cultural radicalism tamed, as the Church attempted to control both its doctrines and its followers. Christopher Rowland here shows that this was never the whole story. At the margins, around the edges, sometimes off the religious map, the apocalyptic flame of the New Testament continued to burn. In 1649 the Diggers occupied St George's Hill to put the egalitarianism of Christ into practice. 'You must break these men or they will break you', Oliver Cromwell declared of the 'lunaticks'. This book argues that such revolutionaries had divined the true intent of the enigma who threw over the tables of the money-changers: to summon a new epoch - strange, iconoclastic, uncomfortable and otherworldly. It gives full weight to a remarkable strain of radical religion that simply refuses to die.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: 'Would to God that all the Lords people were
Prophets'
Chapter 2: Heaven on Earth: The Roots of Christian
Radicalism in the New Testament
Part 2: Kairos: The Unique Moment and
Apocalyptic Discernment
Chapter 3: Human Actors in the Divine Drama
Chapter 4: Subversive Apocalypse
Part 3: Contrasting Radical Prophets:
Gerrard Winstanley and William Blake
Chapter 5: Gerrard Winstanley: Responding to a
Kairos Moment in English History
Chapter 6: 'From impulse not from rules': William Blake's
Apocalyptic Pedagogy
Part 4: Christian Radicalism in Modernity:
An Example and a Neglected Perspective
Chapter 7: Liberation Theology: How to Proclaim God in a
World that is Inhumane
Chapter 8: Apocalypticism and Millenarian Eschatology:
Recovering Neglected Strands
Epilogue: '… And here I end': Concluding Reflections
Product details
| Published | Aug 30 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781786722386 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Illustrations | 8 bw integrated, 16 colour in 8pp plates |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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