A history of the end of the world : how the most controversial book in the Bible changed the course of Western civilization / Jonathan Kirsch.
Record details
- ISBN: 0060816988
- Physical Description: 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, ©2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "The book of Revelation": pages [257]-287. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-330) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Something rich and strange -- Spooky knowledge and last things -- The history of a delusion -- The Apocalyptic invasion -- "Your own days, few and evil" -- To begin the world over again -- The godless Apocalypse. |
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Subject: | Bible. Revelation > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. Revelation > Influence. End of the world > History of doctrines. History > Religious aspects > Christianity. |