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Waiting For Elijah - A History Of The Megiddo Mission (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Waiting For Elijah - A History Of The Megiddo Mission (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Founded in the late nineteenth century, the Megiddo Mission is an
apocalyptic religious movement that continues to claim a small but
dedicated following. Waiting for Elijah is the first book-length
study of this unusual sect, which commands attention both for its
powers of survival and for its unique blend of faith and practice.
Over the course of the church's history, its adherents have
combined patriotism, redefinition of gender roles, perfectionism,
and communitarianism with elements of middle-class capitalism.
The church originated in the itinerant ministry of a Civil War
veteran named L. T. Nichols, whose controversial preaching led to
his being shot and wounded. Originally known as the Christian
Brethren, Nichols and his followers relocated from Oregon to the
Midwest in 1883 and some years later embarked on an evangelistic
ministry that entailed traveling up and down the Mississippi River
system on a large steamboat. In 1904, the group moved to its
present home of Rochester, New York, from which its missionaries
traveled throughout the United States and Canada. They took the
name "Megiddo" from a strategically located city in ancient Israel,
which to them signified a place where soldiers of God gathered to
renew their strength and courage.
Drawing on diverse sources--including the writings of Nichols and
his charismatic successor, Maud Hembree; newspaper accounts; and
interviews with present-day Megiddos--Gari-Anne Patzwald traces the
group's intriguing history and analyzes its core beliefs. As she
shows, the sect's roots can be found in the Restorationist movement
of the early nineteenth century, which sought to recapture biblical
truth and practice. A focal point of Nichols's preaching was the
assertion that the Hebrew prophet Elijah would return in bodily
form prior to the second coming of Christ and the final culmination
of history.
Certain Megiddo practices--such as conservative dress and
celebration of Christmas in springtime--have, to some in the
American mainstream, marked them as outsiders. And indeed, as
Patzwald notes, the group displays many characteristics of an
enclosed communal society. Yet the Megiddos have always rejected a
community of goods in favor of individual initiative and
entrepreneurship, and these attributes, Patzwald argues, have done
much to ensure the group's survival well beyond its original
generation of followers.
The Author: An independent scholar, Gari-Anne Patzwald holds
master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the
Lexington Theological Seminary. She is the associate editor of the
Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement.
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