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The Long View: The Gray Havens

The Gray Havens Table of Contents An Explanation A Disclaimer (1) The Downfall of Rivendell (2) Weathertop (3) Bree (4) The Old Forest (5) Buckland (6) The Conquered Shire (7) The Prefect of Bag End (8) North & West (9) The Tower Hills (10) The End of the World An

The Long View: The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

The Rosicrucian Order is the kind of thing I couldn't get enough of when I was a teenager and a young man, and now bores me to tears. Accordingly, I'm sympathetic to John's critical reading of what the history of such movements really means.

The Long View: Augustine: A Biography

I don't have much to add to this fine book review of a biography of St. Augustine, other than to highlight this: John of Eclanum Augustine: A Biography By Peter Brown University of California Press, 2000 Originally Published 1967 548 Pages, Various Prices ISBN 0-520-22757-3 A Review By

The Long View: Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages

Ignore doomsday at your peril. Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages by Eugen Weber Harvard University Press, 2000 294 pages, US$16.95 (Paperback) ISBN 0-674-00395-0 The University of Toronto asked Eugen Weber, the noted emeritus professor of modern European history at UCLA, to give the 1999

The Long View: Beyond the End Times: The Rest of the Greatest Story Ever Told

The minutiae of eschatology matter quite a bit to many people. This book review was my introduction to preterism, the claim that all of the events prophesied in the New Testament have already happened. Like John, I don't think this really fits into a systematic Christian theology, but

The Long View: The Coming Age of Cathedrals

In 2014 I speculated that John Reilly probably knew Richard Landes, because of their common interests. I managed to miss this essay of John's where he talked about meeting with Landes in New York City. I'm not sure how, since I referenced the ideas here in

The Long View: Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric

In case anyone needs help with the terminology of millennial studies, I have a glossary in my lecture notes. Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric by Stephen D. O'Leary Oxford University Press, 1994 314 Pages, US$19.95 ISBN 0-19-512125-2 The study of millennialism did not