The End of Time: Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the MillenniumDamian Thompson examines the roots of millennial beliefs and its often unrecognized role in the development of modern society. He seeks to answer a number of surprising question, such as: Why to calendar changes have such a profound effect upon the human psyche? Why does the Catholic church attach such mystical significance to the year 2000? And why do the disembodied spirits channeled by New Age mediums point to the end of this millennium as a time of astonishing earth changes? |
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... mysterious secrecy of his wisdom prepares all things . What appears established with the greatest degree of certainty is that this phenomenon never appears in the sky to men without being the sure sign of some mysterious and terrible ...
... mysterious secrecy of his wisdom prepares all things . What appears established with the greatest degree of certainty is that this phenomenon never appears in the sky to men without being the sure sign of some mysterious and terrible ...
Page 192
... mysterious phenomenon known as the New Age . On the contrary , he merely exhibits its most important features in an unusually concentrated form . He is shamelessly eclectic , bor- rowing indiscriminately from Christian fundamentalism ...
... mysterious phenomenon known as the New Age . On the contrary , he merely exhibits its most important features in an unusually concentrated form . He is shamelessly eclectic , bor- rowing indiscriminately from Christian fundamentalism ...
Page 281
... mysterious fire swept through the building and within minutes eighty apocalyptic believers were dead . There is broad agreement that , if Waco had not happened , any conflict would be taking place on a far smaller scale . The tragedy ...
... mysterious fire swept through the building and within minutes eighty apocalyptic believers were dead . There is broad agreement that , if Waco had not happened , any conflict would be taking place on a far smaller scale . The tragedy ...
Contents
The Roots of Apocalypse | 3 |
The Mystery of the Year 1000 | 43 |
Pursuing the Millennium | 56 |
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