Table of Contents

Introduction
Conventions in Restoration apocalyptic interpretation
The apocalypse, radicalism, and reaction in the early Restoration
The apocalypse and moderate nonconformity
The Anglican apocalypse
The Popish Plot and apocalyptic expectation
Apocalyptic thought and the Revolution of 1688-89
Conclusion: the apocalypse to 1700

About the Author

WARREN JOHNSTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English and History at Algoma University, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Revelation Restored: The Apocalypse in Later Seventeenth Century England (Boydell Press, 2011).

Reviews

A significant new contribution to the historiography of the Restoration period, and of English eschatological thought more generally.
*ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE*

[A] detailed and worthy study.
*SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS*

Exhaustive and persuasive.
*ARCHIVES*

A very informative book [that] provides a gold mine of texts and analyses of their meanings.
*RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW*

A convincing, engaging and meticulously researched study. [...] It admirably fills a significant gap in early modern scholarship.
*BAPTIST QUARTERLY, vol. 45, July 2013*

A very good book. [...] Not only an important contribution to a vibrant debate but a welcome historiographical bridge, enabling students to assess the continuities and discontinuities of eighteenth-century English apocalypticism with those of the entire seventeenth century.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*

An admirably balanced and comprehensive survey of apocalyptic thought.
*JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY*