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13 - “Pride & Vanity of the Imagination, That Disdains to Follow This World’s Fashion”: Apocalypticism in the Age of Reason

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2020

By
Christopher Rowland
Edited by
Colin McAllister
Colin McAllister
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
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Summary

This chapter is an exposition of a visionary, apocalyptic perspective in Christian intellectual history of the early modern period which contrasts with a mainstream mistrust of apocalyptic claims. Discussion of Anne Hutchinson, Gerrard Winstanley, and William Blake concludes with a consideration of the centrality of such an apocalyptic perspective in the New Testament.

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Anne HutchinsonGerrard WinstanleyWilliam Blakeimmediate revelation
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The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature , pp. 231 - 250
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Selected Further Reading

Blake, William. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Edited by Erdman, David V.. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.Google Scholar
Burdon, Christopher. The Apocalypse in England: Revelation Unravelling, 1700–1834. London: Macmillan, 1997.Google Scholar
Kovacs, Judith, and Rowland, Christopher. Revelation: The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lockley, Philip. Visionary Religion and Radicalism in Early Industrial England: From Southcott to Socialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth Century England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Mee, Jon. Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.Google Scholar
Rowland, Christopher. Blake and the Bible. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Rowland, Christopher. Christian Origins: The Setting and Character of the Most Important Messianic Sect of Judaism. Rev. ed. London: SPCK, 2002.Google Scholar
Rowland, Christopher. Radical Prophet: The Mystics, Subversives and Visionaries Who Strove for Heaven on Earth. London: Tauris, 2017.Google Scholar
Winship, Michael P. The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Winstanley, Gerrard. The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley. Edited by Corns, Thomas N., Hughes, Ann, and Loewenstein, David. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.Google Scholar

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