World without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880–1925

by James H. Moorhead

Publisher:

Indiana University Press

, 2024

"In this compelling intellectual and social history, Moorhead argues that for mainline Protestants in the late 19th century, time became endless, human-directed and without urgency. . . . Moorhead offers some brilliant observations about the legacy of postmillennialism and the human need for a definitive eschaton." —Publishers Weekly

In the 19th century American Protestants firmly believed that when progress had run its course, there would be a Second Coming of Christ, the world would come to a supernatural End, and the predictions in the Apocalypse would come to pass. During the years covered in James Moorhead's study, however, moderate and liberal mainstream Protestants transformed this postmillennialism into a hope that this world would be the scene for limitless spiritual improvement and temporal progress. The sense of an End vanished with the arrival of the new millennium.

Product Details

• Title: World without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880–1925
• Author: James H. Moorhead
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780253028501, 9780253335807, 0253335809, 0253028507
• Resource ID: LLS:9780253028501
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-22T07:56:29Z

About James H. Moorhead

James Moorhead is Princeton Theological Seminary’s Mary McIntosh Bridge Professor of American Church History. He earned his M.Div. from the Seminary and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christianity, with a focus on mainline Protestantism, and teaches courses on American Christianity and Presbyterian history and theology. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he is senior editor of The Journal of Presbyterian History.