Jonathan Kirsch - A History of the End of the World

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Abbo of Fleury

Abelard, Peter

Against Heresies (Irenaeus)

Against the Jews (Joachim of Fiore)

Against the Jews and Their Lies (Luther)

Akenson, Donald Harman

Akiva, Rabbi

Alexander the Great

Alexander Jannaeus

alphanumeric code (666)

American politics: apocalyptic activism as part of; fundamentalism role in modern; God-less apocalypse role in

American Prospect

Amos

The Animal Apocalypse

Antichrist: Apocalyptic tradition on; beast description of; candidates for the; challenge of interpreting Revelation’s; Jerusalem Temple rebuilt by; Joachim’s vision of; medieval Christianity tradition on; Revelation’s representation of; Satan as; 666 alphanumeric code for; slain by Jesus Christ; technological manifestations of; Tribulation and the. See also beast

Antiochus IV (Antiochus Epiphanes)

Anti-Semitism

apocalypse: definitions of; Revelation known as. See also the God-less apocalypse; Revelation

The Apocalypse of Adam

Apocalypse of Paul

The Apocalypse of St. John (Der)

The Apocalypse of the Virgin Mary

The Apocalypse of Weeks

apocalyptic science fiction films

apocalyptic texts: The Animal Apocalypse ; book of Daniel as; The Book of Thunder ; earlier influences on; end-times prophecies included in; first book of Enoch; Jewish tradition of; Little Apocalypse of the Gospels as; Pseudepigrapha (“false writings”) included as; The Shepherd of Hermas

apocalyptic tradition: alienation experience reflected by; Americanization of the; on Anti-God idea; book of Enoch’s influence on; culture war contribution to; as the history of a delusion; imagery during medieval era; medieval development of; modern manifestations of; origins of; persecution element of. See also end-times prophecies; God-less apocalypse

Approaching Hoofbeats: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Graham)

Arabella (1630 ship)

Arjomand, Saïd Amir

Artemesium (Greek temple)

The Astronomical Book

Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria

atomic bomb (code name Trinity) [1945]

Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

Aum Shinrikyo cult

author. See Revelation author

“The Babylonian Captivity”

Babylonian Exile

Bacon, Roger

Bakker, Jim

Balaam

Balfour Declaration (1917)

Barkun, Michael

Barnhouse, Donald Grey

Bartholomew Fair (Jonson)

Baruch

beast: mark of the; Revelation symbolism of. See also Antichrist

Beatus of Liébana

The Beginning of the End (LaHaye)

Beguines community

Belial

Bell, George

Benedict IX, Pope

Benedict XI, Pope

Bergman, Ingmar

Berrigan, Daniel

Black Death

Blackstone, William Eugene

Blake, William

Bloom, Harold

Bockelson, Jan (Jan van Leiden)

Bonfire of the Vanities

Boniface VIII, Pope

book of Daniel. See also Daniel

The Book of Dreams

book of Enoch

The Book of J (Rosenberg)

The Book of Prophecies (Columbus)

The Book of Thunder

The Book of Watchers

Boyer, Paul

Branch Davidians cult (Waco)

The Bridal Call (Foursquare Gospel)

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (film)

Bush, George, Sr.

Bush, George W.

Calvin, John

Carlson, C. C.

Carter, Jimmy

Casale, Ubertino da

Cedars of Lebanon Prophecy (Tripoli Prophecy)

Celestine V, Pope

Cerinthus

Charles I (King of England)

Charles VIII (King of France)

Chosen People: afflictions sent to;

covenant between God and. See also Jewish people

Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God (Miles)

Christ and Antichrist (third century)

Christ in the Army (Civil War sermons)

Christian fundamentalism: Apocalypse and development of; apocalypse subculture of; focus on Israel; Left Behind series phenomenon of; movies produced by; political role of modern

Christianity: America’s Great Awakenings (eighteenth century) and; Antichrist depiction of medieval; Constantine’s conversion to; dualism notion of; marginal status of Revelation in early; Protestant Reformation and; stated mission of. See also Roman Catholic Church

Christians: John on expected behavior of; John on martyred; persecution of

Christian Zionism

Chronological, Certain, and Irrefutable Proof (Raimarus)

Church of Latter-Day Saints

The Church Militant and Triumphant

City of God (Augustine)

Civil War

Clinton, Bill

Cohn, Norman

Cole, K. C.

Collins, Adela Yarbro