Jonathan Kirsch - A History of the End of the World

Collins, John J.

Columbus, Christopher

Colwell, Ernest Cadman

Constantine, Emperor

Cotton, John

Council of Laodicea

Cromwell, Oliver

Crusades

culture war: Jewish Kulturkampf form of; Revelation role in Catholic/Protestant

Cyril of Jerusalem

Damian, Peter

Daniel. See also book of Daniel

Dante, Alighieri

Darby, John Nelson

“The Day of Doom” (Wigglesworth)

The Days of Noah (DeHaan)

Dead Sea Scrolls

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon)

DeHaan, M. R.

Deus Irae (Dick and Zelazny)

Dick, Philip K.

The Didache

Diocletian

Dionysius of Alexandria

Dionysius Exiguus

Disaster and the Millennium (Barkun)

The Divine Comedy (Dante)

Domesday Boke (Doomsday Book)

Domingo de Guzman

Domitian Caesar

Donatists

doomsday devices

Dr. Strangelove (film)

dualist theology

Dubnow, Simon

Eddy, Mary Baker

Edson, Hiram

Edwards, Jonathan

Ehrman, Bart

88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988 (Whisenant)

Ekkehard of Aur

Ellul, Jacques

Emmerson, Richard K.

The End of Days (Gorenberg)

end-times prophecies: apocalyptic texts inclusion of; book of Daniel; characters and events of; Christian Zionists on role of Jewish people; common features of; fundamentalism apocalypse subculture based on; by Jesus; Joachim’s interpretations of; John on punishments for enemies of God; on millennium; as mistaken and failed; moral risk of contemplating; natural phenomenon/freak of nature signs of; Paul’s epistles on; on rebuilding of Roman Empire; religious propaganda based on; on the Tribulation; two witnesses vision; Year 1000 link to. See also apocalyptic tradition; prophecy/prophecies; Revelation; Second Coming

The End of Time (Thompson)

Enoch

Ephesus

Erasmus, Desiderius

Essenes

Eusebius

Evodius of Uzala

Ezekiel

False prophets/prophecy

Falwell, Jerry

Farrer, Austin

Fasching, Darrell J.

Ferdinand of Aragon

The Fifteen Signs of Doomsday (ascribed to Jerome)

Fifth Monarchy Men (Great Britain)

Fiorenza, Elizabeth Schüssler

first book of Enoch: The Animal Apocalypse ; The Apocalypse of Weeks ; The Book of the Watchers

First Epistle to the Thessalonians

First Great Awakening (eighteenth century)

First World War

Ford, Henry

Ford, J. Massyngberde

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Foursquare Gospel

Fox, George

Francis of Assisi

Frederick II (German King)

Fredriksen, Paula

Friedman, Richard Elliott

fundamentalism. See Christian fundamentalism

The Fundamentals (1910 pamphlet)

Fussell, Paul

Gabelein, Arno C.

George III (King of England)

Ghost Dance movement

Gibbon, Edward

Gnostic Gospels

God: as absent from apocalyptic science fiction; as “Ancient of Days”; covenant with; final battle between Satan and; Hebrew Bible depiction of; Jewish tradition on nature of. See also Jesus Christ

God-less apocalypse: American politics and role of; becomes part of popular culture; fundamentalism apocalypse subculture compared to; On the Beach (film) depiction of; science fiction films about. See also apocalyptic tradition

Gog and Magog

Gorenberg, Gershom

Gospel of Mark

Gospel of Matthew

Gospels: comparing Revelation to the;

“spin” on execution of Jesus in

Graetz, Heinrich

Graham, Billy

Graves, Robert

Gray, James M.

Great Disappointment (nineteenth century)

The Great War and Modern Memory (Fussell)

Great Whore of Babylon: depiction of; literature references to; Roman Empire visualized as

Gregory the Great, Pope

Gregory IX, Pope

Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory VII, Pope

Greogry VI, Pope

Gui, Bernard

The Hallelujah Side (Huffey)

Handbook in Tribulation (John of Rupescissa)

Hasidim (“Pious Ones”)

Heaven’s Gate cult

Hebrew Bible: apocalyptic texts excluded from; depiction of God in; messiah notion of; Revelation allusions to passages of the; Satan as characterized in; scholarship regarding authors of; on sexual conduct. See also New Testament

Hellenism: evidence of John’s hatred of; Jewish people and introduction to; religious influence of

Henry VII of Luxembourg

Herod

Herrstrom, W. D.

Herzl, Theodor

Heston, Charlton

Hildegard of Bingen

Hipploytus, Bishop

History’s Crowded Climax (Seventh-day Adventists)

Hoffer, Eric

Holocaust

Hope of Israel Mission

Houteff, Victor

Howe, Julia Ward

Howell, Vernon (“David Koresh”)

How to Recognize the Antichrist (handbook)

Huffey, Rhoda

Huguenots

Hussein, Saddam

“The Imagination of Disaster” (Sontag)

Inhofe, James

Inquisition

The Inquisitor’s Manual (Bernard Gui)

Irenaeus, Bishop

Israel: Christian fundamentalism focus on; prophecies on modern state of; Six Day War (1967) of. See also Jewish people

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jenkins, Jerry B.

Jeremiah

Jerome

“Jerusalem” (Blake)

Jerusalem Journey (Ekkehard of Aura)

Jerusalem Temple: money-changing at; pagan image installed by Syrians on; rebuilding of the; rebuilt by Antichrist; Roman destruction of

Jerusalem Temple Foundation

Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium (Ehrman)

Jesus Christ: Antichrist slain by; as author of Revelation; descent to earth after seven years by; end of the world prophecies of; lamb symbolism of; puzzles and riddles referring to; Satan bound by; Son of Man depiction of. See also God

Jesus Is Coming (Blackstone)

Jesus of Nazareth: as Jewish apocalypticist; rejected as Messiah by Jewish people

Jewish people: anti-Semitism against; Babylonian Exile of; Christian Zionists on end-times role of; culture war (Kulturkampf) experienced by; end-times prophecies on new homeland for; Holocaust impact on; Maccabean Revolt by; rejection of Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah by; responses to Hellenism and Roman imperialism by. See also Chosen People; Israel

The Jewish State (Herzl)

Jewish tradition: Hellenism influence on; on nature of God; on sexual conduct. See also Judaism

Jewish Zionism

Jezebel

Joachim of Fiore

John the Baptist

John the Evangelist: condemnation of coinage and cargo by; debated as Revolution author; on dualism; evidence in Revelation regarding character of; exiled to isle of Patmos; on expected behavior of Christians; missionary work of; on punishments of enemies of God; scholarship examining authorship of; self-introduction by; on sexual conduct; as traditional author of Revelation; visionary experiences of. See also Revelation author-John of Rupescissa

John XXII, Pope

Jones, Jim

Jones, Rev. Charles

Jonson, Ben

Josephus

Judah Maccabee

Judaism: Antiochus Epiphanes’ persecution against; evidenced in Revelation; Messiah beliefs of. See also Jewish tradition

Judgment Day

Jung, C. G.

Kalb, Marvin

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Koresh, David

Kubrick, Stanley

Kulturkampf (culture war)

Ladd, George Eldon

Laden, Osama bin

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence)

A Lady Weighing Pearls (Vermeer painting)

LaHaye, Tim

The Lamb, Christ referred to as