God's Strange Work: William Miller and the End of the World
"Calvinist Baptist preacher William Miller (1782-1849) was the first prominent American popularizer of using biblical prophecy to determine a specific and imminent time for Christ's return to earth. On October 22, 1844 - a day known as the Great Disappointment - he and his followers gave away their possessions, abandoned their work, donned white robes, and ascended to rooftops and hilltops to await a Second Coming that never actually came. Or so the story goes." Reflecting Rowe's meticulous...
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"Calvinist Baptist preacher William Miller (1782-1849) was the first prominent American popularizer of using biblical prophecy to determine a specific and imminent time for Christ's return to earth. On October 22, 1844 - a day known as the Great Disappointment - he and his followers gave away their possessions, abandoned their work, donned white robes, and ascended to rooftops and hilltops to await a Second Coming that never actually came. Or so the story goes." Reflecting Rowe's meticulous research throughout, God's Strange Work does more than tell one man's remarkable story. It encapsulates the broader history of American Christianity in the time period and sets the stage for many significant later developments: the founding of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the tenets of various well-known new religious movements, and even the enduring American fascination with end-times prophecy. Rowe rescues Miller from the fringes and places him where he rightly belongs - in the center of American religious history.
Foreword Mark Noll Noll, MarkA Note on Quotations and Citations1 Whereby I Might Please God 12 The Society of a Superior Class of Men 243 How Has He Visited Me in My Nightly Dreams 464 A Feast of Reason 695 Go and Tell It to the World 1026 My Heart Inclines More towards Them 1297 I Am Coming On 1588 Our Hearts Are Growing Weary of Thy So Long Delay 192Epilogue: This Work, This Strange Work 226Bibliography 236Index 245
