Hope and Heresy The Problem of Chiliasm in Lutheran Confessional Culture, 1570-1630 /

• Main Author: Penman, Leigh T.I (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Religion-History.; Eschatology.; Europe-History-1492-.; History of Religion.; History of Early Modern Europe.

Apocalyptic expectations played a key role in defining the horizons of life and expectation in early modern Europe. Hope and Heresy investigates the problematic status of a particular kind of apocalyptic expectation-that of a future felicity on earth before the Last Judgement-within Lutheran confess...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Three Mirrors
• 2. The School of the Holy Spirit
• Chapter 3. Two Prophetic Voices
• Chapter 4. Optimism Outlawed
• Chapter 5. Heretics in the Pulpit
• Chapter 6. A Lutheran Millennium
• Chapter 7. Failed Prophecies
• Chapter 8. Conclusion
• Appendix: Printed Works Concerning Optimistic Apocalyptic Expectations, 1600-1630
• Bibliography
• Index.