Description: How will the world end? Doomsday ideas in Western
history have been both persistent and adaptable, peaking at various
times, including in modern America. Public opinion polls indicate
that a substantial number of Americans look for the return of
Christ or some catastrophic event. The views expressed in these
polls have been reinforced by the market process. Whether through
purchasing paperbacks or watching television programs, millions of
Americans have expressed an interest in end-time events. Americans
have a tremendous appetite for prophecy, more than nearly any other
people in the modern world. Why do Americans love doomsday? In
Apocalyptic Fever, Richard Kyle attempts to answer this question,
showing how dispensational premillennialism has been the driving
force behind doomsday ideas. Yet while several chapters are devoted
to this topic, this book covers much more. It surveys end-time
views in modern America from a wide range of
perspectives--dispensationalism, Catholicism, science, fringe
religions, the occult, fiction, the year 2000, Islam, politics, the
Mayan calendar, and more. Endorsements: ""We are indebted to Kyle
for his outstanding survey of the end times. These concepts have
developed over many centuries, but they have found fertile soil in
our own land. Kyle deals with an astonishingly wide range of ideas
with insightful and broad knowledge of the historical, religious,
and contemporary contexts. This is by far the best guide to the
fascinating and intricate world of the end times. Those who wish to
understand our nation's psyche will find Apocalyptic Fever a
must-read book."" --Robert G. Clouse, Senior Research Scholar in
Liberal Arts, Indiana State University ""Apocalyptic enthusiasm
rarely receives calm and thoughtful consideration. Kyle is a most
welcome exception. His book is careful, nuanced, insightful, and
charitable toward a subject that is usually treated as incredible,
unbelievable, mad, or deadly certain. Apocalyptic Fever takes the
temperature of a serious disease and provides just the right
calming prescription for bringing the fever under control."" --Mark
Noll, Professor of History, University of Notre Dame ""Apocalyptic
Fever is one of those must-read books. Kyle, a veteran observer of
radical evangelical and conservative religion in America, addresses
the wide variety of end-time preachers, writers, and movements in
the contemporary world . . . Such an explanatory work is sorely
needed in an age where polemical treatises richly abound.""
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