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Prophecy and Progress: C hristianity and Dissent in Modern A merica
Author(s) -
Rossinow Doug
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12068
Subject(s) - dissent , protestantism , fatalism , politics , political dissent , religious studies , historiography , political science , theology , philosophy , law
The categories of left and right, and the standard interpretive alignments of progressive C hristianity 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 A merican C hristians along the whole political spectrum. Moreover, there were many prophetic postmillennialists, who denounced society's iniquity while working to realize G od's K ingdom, and there were reform premillennialists, who lamented a fallen world even as, paradoxically, they worked to make it more godly and less satanic.