TY - BOOK AU - Gribben,Crawford TI - The Puritan millennium: literature and theology, 1550-1682 SN - 9781842273722 U1 - 285/.9 21 PY - 2008/// CY - Milton Keyes, UK PB - Paternoster Press KW - Puritan movements KW - Great Britain KW - Puritans KW - England KW - History KW - 16th century KW - 17th century KW - Puritan movements in literature KW - English literature KW - Early modern KW - 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - Doctrines N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/2001269042.html ER -