World Without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925

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In this compelling intellectual and social history, Moorhead argues thatfor mainline Protestants in the late 19th century, time became endless, human-directed and without urgency.... Moorhead offers some brilliant observationsabout the legacy of postmillennialism and the human need for a definitive eschaton."-- Publishers Weekly In the 19th century American Protestantsfirmly believed that when progress had run its course, there would be a SecondComing of Christ, the world would come to a supernatural End, and the predictions inthe Apocalypse would come to pass. During the years covered in James Moorhead'sstudy, however, moderate and liberal mainstream Protestants transformed thispostmillennialism into a hope that this world would be the scene for limitlessspiritual improvement and temporal progress. The sense of an End vanished with thearrival of the new millennium.

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