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The Writings of Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future, Past and Present: Including the Almanacs

The Writings of Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future, Past and Present: Including the Almanacs

by Michel De Nostradamus

The complete writings of Nostradamus, unadulterated and as written, by Nostradamus himself. Unlock the secrets to the past, present and future, and draw your own conclusions, with this master key provided by the greatest seer himself, Nostradamus!

The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism : Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age

The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism : Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age

Apocalyptism has been broadly defined as the belief that God has revealed the imminent end of the ongoing struggle between good and evil throughout history. It has been a major element in the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and extensive scholarship has been devoted to apocalyptic study during the latter half of the 20th century. With contributions from 42 scholars, this... (more)

Aurora

by Jacob Boehme

That is, the Day-Spring or Dawning of the Day in the Orient or Morning Redness in the Rising of the Sun. That is the Root or Mother of Philosophie, Astrologie and Theologie from the true Ground. Or a Description of Nature, I. How All was, and came to be in the Beginning. II. How Nature and the Elements are become Creaturely. III. Also of the Two Qualities Evil and Good. IV. From whence all things had their... (more)

The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (The Biblical Resource Series)

The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (The Biblical Resource Series)

by John Joseph Collins

Mysterium Magnum: Volume One

by Jacob Boehme

Jacob Boehme was born in 1575. He received little if any formal education and was apprenticed to a shoemaker at Goerlitz in Saxony. From an early age he seems to have been devoted to the study of the Bible as well as to have had a growing, inner, sense of the reality of God. Walking one day in the fields, when he was twenty-five years old, the mystery of creation was suddenly opened to him, of which he later said... (more)

Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux

Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux

by John Gneisenau Neihardt, Black Elk

Black Elk Speaks is the story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and chose Neihardt to tell his story. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk’s experiences in this... (more)

The Prophecies of Daniel and The Apocalypse (1733)

The Prophecies of Daniel and The Apocalypse (1733)

by Isaac Newton

This fascinating and little known work of Sir Isaac Newton has been fully re-typeset and includes three colour plates (one of Thornhill's portrait of Newton, and two of Woolsthorpe Manor) and a facsimile page from the original 1733 edition. Newton takes a historicist approach to both Daniel and Revelation, for example identifying the dragon in Revelation 12 with pagan Rome and persecutions of the early... (more)

Blindsight

by Peter Watts

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown. Two months of silence, while a world holds its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears... (more)

Starfish (Rifters Trilogy)

by Peter Watts

A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness. Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental... (more)

The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text (New International Greek Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, Mich.).)

The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text (New International Greek Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, Mich.).)

by G. K. Beale

Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith

Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith

by Norman Cohn

In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium investigates the origins of apocalyptic faith--the belief in a perfect future, when the forces of good are victorious over the forces of evil. Norman Cohn takes us back two thousand years to the world views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, and the earliest... (more)

Eschatology, Messianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature, V. 1)

Eschatology, Messianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature, V. 1)

by Craig A. Evans

The eight essays in this book on the subjects of eschatology and messianism evidenced in the Dead Sea Scrolls were originally delivered at a conference for a lay audience, and are therefore accessible to the interested reading public.

Visions of the End

by Bernard McGinn

From millenarists to Antichrist hunters, from the Sibyls to the Hussites, Visions of the End is a monumental compendium spanning the literature of the Christian apocalyptic tradition from the period A.D. 400 to 1500, masterfully selected and complete with a comprehensive introduction and new preface.

Antichrist

by Bernard McGinn

In this timely and sweeping exploration, one of the greatest living historians of Christian thought traces the concept of Antichrist from its Judeo-Christian origins to the present day. Rooted in Second Temple Judaism--a period of intense religious and political disruption--Antichrist developed out of belief in malevolent angelic and human forces. McGinn demonstrates how Antichrist has often reflected the human... (more)

The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation

The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation

by Richard Bauckham

The Dawn of Apocalyptic: The Historical and Sociological Roots of Jewish Apocalyptic Eschatology

The Dawn of Apocalyptic: The Historical and Sociological Roots of Jewish Apocalyptic Eschatology

by Paul Hanson

Gnostic Apocalypse: Jacob's Boehme's Haunted Narrative

Gnostic Apocalypse: Jacob's Boehme's Haunted Narrative

by Cyril O'Regan

Argues that the discourse of Jacob Boehme represents the return of Gnostic thought in modernity after a thousand year hiatus.

Apocalyptic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality)

Apocalyptic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality)

by Bernard McGinn

This book makes available major texts in the Christian apocalyptic literature form the 4th to the 16th centuries. The apocalyptic tradition is that of traditional prophecy based on revelation and concerned with the end of the world. Even an age such as ours characterized by its scientific and rationalistic outlook has strong elements of literal apocalypticism found in fundamentalist and charismatic groups. The... (more)

Genesis and Apocalypse: A Theological Voyage Toward Authentic Christianity

Genesis and Apocalypse: A Theological Voyage Toward Authentic Christianity

by Thomas J. J. Altizer

Altizer provides a radical analysis of Christian apocalypse as central to Christianity and rooted in the Christian account of creation. This intellectually demanding work analyzes Western Christian tradition (especially Paul, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Barth) and uses Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietszche, as well as Dante, Milton, Blake, and Joyce to arrive at a vision of humankind's end and hope. It also... (more)

Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls)

Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls)

by John Joseph Collins

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls 50 years ago revealed Jewish apocalypticism that was before unknown. The scrolls chronicled life in an apocalyptic community, whose members believed that the end of the world was nearing. When the end did not occur, the community then believed they were already living the afterlife. John J. Collins explores the issue of apocalypticism in the Scrolls within a Jewish context... (more)

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by Michel De Nostradamus

by Jacob Boehme

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by Jacob Boehme

by John Gneisenau Neihardt, Black Elk

by Isaac Newton

by Peter Watts

by Peter Watts

by G. K. Beale

by Norman Cohn

by Craig A. Evans

by Bernard McGinn

by Bernard McGinn

by Richard Bauckham

by Paul Hanson

by Cyril O'Regan

by Bernard McGinn

by Thomas J. J. Altizer

by John Joseph Collins