Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience (repost)
Richard Landes, "Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience"
English | ISBN: 0199753598 | 2011 | PDF | 520 pages | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0199753598 | 2011 | PDF | 520 pages | 3 MB
Millennialists through the ages have looked forward to the apocalyptic moment that will radically transform society into heaven on earth. They have delivered withering critiques of their own civilizations and promised both the impending annihilation of the forces of evil and the advent of a perfect society. And all their promises have invariably failed.
We tend, therefore, to dismiss these prophets of doom and salvation as crackpots and madmen, and not surprisingly historians of our secular era have tended to underestimate their impact on our modern world. Now, Richard Landes offers a lucid and ground-breaking analysis of this widely misunderstood phenomenon.