The Puritan millennium : literature and theology, 1550-1682 /
Crawford Gribben.
- 2nd ed.
- Milton Keyes, UK ; Paternoster Press, 2008.
- 224 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-219) and index.
Introduction : Methodology -- The Development of the Puritan Apocalypse : The History of Puritan Interpretations -- The Marian Exiles and the Construction of the Tradition : John Foxe; The Geneva Bibles -- James Ussher and the Collapse of the Genevan worldview : Ussher and Chronology; Ussher and the Millennium; Arminianism ahd the Identity of Antichrist; Ussher and the Godly Prince; Ussher and the Westminster Assembly -- George Gillespie and the Scottish revolution : The Westminster Assembly and the Millennium; Gillespie and Eschatology; Gillespie and Millenarian Ecclesiology; Gillespie and the Poetics of Apocalypse; The Aftermath of the Covenanter Millennium -- John Milton and the Reaction to the Westminster Assembly : Milton and Eschatology; "Areopagitica" and the Westminster Assembly; Apocalyptic Aporia -- John Rogers and Irish Puritan Conversions : The English Radicals in Ireland; Rogers and Eschatology; Rogers and Eschatological Soteriology; Rogers and the Poetics of Apocalypse -- John Bunyan and the Realized Apocalypse : Bunyan and Eschatology; Realised Eschatology and "The Holy War"; Bunyan and the Poetics of Apocalypse -- Conclusion : Signs of the Times. Appendix: Millennialism in the Puritan Confessions: Reformation Contests -- The Scots confession (1560) -- The Irish Articles (1615) -- The First London Confession (1644) -- The Westminster Confession (1646) -- The Savoy Declaration (1658) -- The Second Baptist Confession (1677/1689) -- Conclusion.
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Puritan movements--Great Britain. Puritans--History--England--16th century. Puritans--History--England--17th century. Puritan movements in literature. English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern--1500-1700 Puritans--Doctrines.