In spite of all I read about the idea of a New Jerusalem and the strong understanding of how apocalyptic belief affects modern politics granted by my reform Jewish background, I expected a modern fundamentalist writing like “Glorious Appearing” to be an attack on cities and large groups of people gathering in urban spaces. Continue reading
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Dualistic Violence in Glorious Appearing
Clearly, as it was intended to be, Glorious Appearing was the perfect counterpart to the Strozier’s essays on the fundamentalist mindset. It is almost as if LaHaye and Jenkins wrote the book to encapsulate every idea that Strozier links with a fundamentalist Apocalypse. It is hard to imagine that Glorious Appearing was written without thoughts of dualistic violence and an eagerness for the end of the world.
