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Adventism, Apocalyptic, and the Cause of Liberty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Douglas Morgan
Douglas Morgan
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a part-time instructor of history in Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
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“I have felt like working three times as hard as ever since I came to understand that my Lord was coming back again,” reported revivalist Dwight L. Moody, the most prominent of nineteenth-century premillennialists. Moody's testimony to the motivating power of premillennialism points to the crucial role of that eschatology in conservative Protestantism since the late nineteenth century—a role delineated by several studies within the past twenty-five years. As a comprehensive interpretation of history which gives meaning and pattern to past, present, and future, and a role for the believer in the outworking of the divine program, premillennialism has been a driving force in the fundamentalistand evangelical movements.

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Research Article
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Church History , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , June 1994 , pp. 235 - 249
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1994

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