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Loading... Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) (2013)by Ben Wright
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In the Civil War era, Americans nearly unanimously accepted that humans battled in a cosmic contest between good and evil and that God was directing history toward its end. The concept of God's Providence and of millennialism -- Christian anticipations of the end of the world -- dominated religious thought in the nineteenth century. During the tumultuous years immediately prior to, during, and after the war, these ideas took on a greater importance as Americans struggled with the unprecedented destruction and promise of the period. Scholars of religion, literary critics, and especial No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)277.3Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity North America United StatesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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