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Reformers and Babylon: English Apocalyptic Visions from the Reformation to the Eve of the Civil War

Reformers and Babylon: English Apocalyptic Visions from the Reformation to the Eve of the Civil War

Christianson, Paul Kenneth

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Religion General General ChristianityBritish History

ISBN10: 144263913X
ISBN13: 9781442639133
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Dec 15 1978
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Starting in the 1530s with John Bale, English reformers found in the apocalyptic mysteries of the Book of Revelation a framework for reinterpreting the history of Christianity and explaining the break from the Roman Catholic Church. Identifying the papacy with antichrist and the Roman Catholic Church with Babylon, they pictured the reformation as a departure from the false church that derived its jurisdiction from the devil. Those who took the initiative in throwing off the Roman yoke acted as instruments of God in the cosmic warfare against the power of evil that raged in the latter days of the world. The reformation ushered in the beginning of the end as prophesied by St. John.

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