The End of Time

by Damian Thompson

Book Overview

Damian Thompson examines the roots of millennial beliefs and its often unrecognized role in the development of modern society. He seeks to answer a number of surprising question, such as: Why to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874518490
• ISBN13: 9780874518498
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A global survey of Pre Millenial Tension (PMT)

Taking in the vast cultic mileu - doomsdayers, new agers, evangelicals, pentecostalists, fundamentalists (both Christian and Muslim), liberal democrats and, naturally, millennialists (technically, those who await the thousand year reign of Christ prophesied in the book of Revelation) - Thompson's treatise uncovers the historical and sociological motives we have for putting ourselves near the end of history rather than at its beginning. The approach of the calendar millennium has been a catalyst for the current wave of Pre Millennial Tension sweeping the globe but there are much larger issues at stake. Thompson argues that there is a powerful confluence between apocalyptic belief and the universal human experience which allows that belief to fit within the personal horizon of the individual. Our urge to celebrate the passing of time fails to conceal an even deeper urge to escape from it, which is why our celebration of 2000 is set to have a bittersweet edge and a tinge of desperation.