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Heaven on Earth - Reimagining Time and Eternity in Nineteenth-Century British Evangelicalism (Paperback)
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Heaven on Earth - Reimagining Time and Eternity in Nineteenth-Century British Evangelicalism (Paperback)
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In nineteenth-century Britain, a large number of prominent Anglican
and Presbyterian Evangelicals rejected the idea that salvation
meant 'going to heaven when you die'. Instead, they proposed that
God would establish his kingdom on earth, renewing the creation and
reanimating embodied humans to live in a world of science and
progress. This book introduces the writings and activities of these
women and men, among whom were counted the ardent social reformer
Lord Shaftesbury, the highly respected clergyman Edward
Bickersteth, the popular author Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, and the
General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Rawson Birks.
The book shows that the catalyst for such theological revisionism
was the end-times doctrine known as 'premillennialism'. While
commonly characterised as a gloomy and sectarian belief, the book
argues that remillennialism in Victorian Britain was actually an
optimistic and often liberalising creed. It dissolved older
Evangelical assumptions about the dissimilarities between time and
eternity, body and soul, heaven and earth. The book demonstrates
that, far from being eccentric pessimists, premillennialists were
actually pioneers of trends in nineteenth-century Christian
theology that stressed the importance of the incarnation,
prioritized social justice, and even entertained the idea of
universal salvation.
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