Prophecy and Progress: Christianity and Dissent in Modern America. Issue 1 (18th June 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rossinow, Doug
• Is Part Of: Journal of historical sociology. Volume 28:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 90
• Page End: 103
• Publication Date: 2014-06-18
• Subjects: Historical sociology -- Periodicals; Social history -- Periodicals; 301.05
• DOI: 10.1111/johs.12068
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0952-1909

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>The categories of left and right, and the standard interpretive alignments of progressive Christianity with postmillennialism and of right‐wing Protestantism with premillennialist fatalism in US historiography, are far from adequate. Prophetic politics, calling contemporary society to account for its ungodly ways, was widely dispersed among modern American Christians along the whole political spectrum. Moreover, there were many prophetic postmillennialists, who denounced society's iniquity while working to realize God's Kingdom, and there were reform premillennialists, who lamented a fallen world even as, paradoxically, they worked to make it more godly and less satanic.</p> </abstract>