Tag: New England (U.S.)*

• 3 Aug 2021

  Missionaries, Apocalypticism and Silences

  

  ElyaDatabase ID Number: T004 Creator: James Rankine, University of Rochester Dr. James Rankine discussed the strange absence of eschatological language and doctrines amongst New England’s Protestant missionaries in the 17th and 18th centuries in contrast to the intense apocalypticism of the colonial religious tradition.