Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-288) and index.
Contents
Renaissance messianism -- The messianic idea during the Reformation -- The messiah during the Thirty Years' War -- Measuring the apocalypse: Isaac Newton and the messiah -- The radical enlightenment -- Rapture, great disappointment, and Waco -- From British Israel to Christian identity and Aryan nation -- The end of the world and the nuclear messiah.