Title Heaven on Earth : reimagining time and eternity in nineteenth-century British evangelicalism / Martin Spence ; foreword by David W. Bebbington

Published Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 307 pages) Contents Introduction -- Evangelicalism's eternal vision -- Eschatology and the evangelical imagination -- The romance of history -- The renewal of time and space -- Premillennialism and "the age of incarnation" -- Prophecy and policy -- The afterlife of mid-nineteenth-century evangelical eschatology Summary "In nineteenth-century Britain, a large number of prominent Anglican and Presbyterian Evangelicals rejected the idea that salvation meant "going to heaven when you die." Instead, they proposed that God would establish his kingdom on earth, renewing the creation and reanimating embodied humans to live in a world of science and progress. This book introduces the writings and activities of these women and men, among whom were counted the ardent social reformer Lord Shaftesbury, the highly-respected clergyman Edward Bickersteth, the popular author Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, and the General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Rawson Birks. The book shows that the catalyst for such theological revisionism was the end-times doctrine known as "premillennialism." While commonly characterized as a gloomy and sectarian belief, the book argues that premillennialism in Victorian Britain was actually an optimistic and often liberalizing creed. It dissolved older Evangelical assumptions about the dissimilarities between time and eternity, body and soul, heaven and earth. The book demonstrates that, far from being eccentric pessimists, premillennialists were actually pioneers of trends in nineteenth-century Christian theology that stressed the importance of the incarnation, prioritized social justice, and even entertained the idea of universal salvation"--Page 4 of cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-298) and index Notes Print version record Subject Eschatology -- History of doctrines -- 19th century Millennium (Eschatology) -- History of doctrines -- 19th century Evangelicalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Eschatology -- History of doctrines Evangelicalism Millennium (Eschatology) -- History of doctrines Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Bebbington, David, 1949- writer of foreword ISBN 0227905229 9780227905227 9781498270120 1498270123

Other Titles Reimagining time and eternity in nineteenth-century British evangelicalism

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