The scarlet woman and the red hand : evangelical apocalyptic belief in the Northern Ireland troubles /
This book provides a comprehensive description of how evangelicals in Northern Ireland interpreted the ""Troubles"" (1966-2007) in the light of how they read the Bible. The rich and diverse landscape of Northern Irish evangelicalism during the ""Troubles"" is...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
The Lutterworth Press
2014.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1cgdx0n |
| Summary: | This book provides a comprehensive description of how evangelicals in Northern Ireland interpreted the ""Troubles"" (1966-2007) in the light of how they read the Bible. The rich and diverse landscape of Northern Irish evangelicalism during the ""Troubles"" is ideally suited to this study of both the light and dark sides of apocalyptic eschatology. Searle demonstrates how the notion of apocalypse shaped evangelical and fundamentalist interpretations of the turbulent events that characterized this dark yet fascinating period in the history of Northern Ireland. The book uses this case study to of |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780718843250 0718843258 9780718893729 |