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When Time Shall Be No More - Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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When Time Shall Be No More - Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Studies in Cultural History
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Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to
like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and
paperbacks for help in finding their place in God's prophetic plan
for mankind. And yet, influential as this phenomenon is in the
worldview of so many, the belief in biblical prophecy remains a
popular mystery, largely unstudied and little understood. When Time
Shall Be No More offers for the first time an in-depth look at the
subtle, pervasive ways in which prophecy belief shapes contemporary
American thought and culture. Belief in prophecy dates back to
antiquity, and there Paul Boyer begins, seeking out the origins of
this particular brand of faith in early Jewish and Christian
apocalyptic writings, then tracing its development over time.
Against this broad historical overview, the effect of prophecy
belief on the events and themes of recent decades emerges in clear
and striking detail. Nuclear war, the Soviet Union, Israel and the
Middle East, the destiny of the United States, the rise of a
computerized global economic order-Boyer shows how impressive feats
of exegesis have incorporated all of these in the popular
imagination in terms of the Bible's apocalyptic works. Reflecting
finally on the tenacity of prophecy belief in our supposedly
secular age, Boyer considers the direction such popular conviction
might take-and the forms it might assume-in the post-Cold War era.
The product of a four-year immersion in the literature and culture
of prophecy belief, When Time Shall Be No More serves as a
pathbreaking guide to this vast terra incognita of contemporary
American popular thought-a thorough and thoroughly fascinating
index to its sources, its implications, and its enduring appeal.
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