Arguing the apocalypse : a theory of millennial rhetoric /
Apocalyptic expectations of Armageddon and a New Age have been a fixture of the American cultural landscape for centuries. With the approach of the year 2000, such millennial visions seem once again to be increasing in popularity. Stephen O'Leary sheds new light on the age-old phenomenon of the...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998, ©1994
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Table of Contents:
- A note on sources and translations
- One. Toward a rhetorical theory of apocalypse
- Two. Time, evil, authority
- Three. From eschatology to apocalypse: Dramatic and argumentative form in the discourse of prophetic interpretation
- Four. Millerism as a rhetorical movement
- Five. Millerite argumentation
- Six. Hal Lindsey and the apocalypse of the twentieth century
- Seven. Apocalyptic politics in the new Christian right
- Eight. The apocalypse of apocalypses
- Epilogue. Waco and beyond
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index