Bibliography: BIB20447

web link	bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB20447
reference type	Thesis
title	The Millerites and Time Prophecy : Their Function as Millennial Themes in the American Bahá'í Community
author	Collins, William P.
authority control	William P. Collins
year	1995
date	July 1995
place published	Syracuse, NY
abstract	Millennialism is one of the primary "motifs" for the academic study of the Bahá'í Faith. The religion has had a strong millennialist strain since its beginnings. The Protestant millenarian movement know as the Millerites predicted the return of Christ in 1843-1844. The Millerites represented a form of Protestant prophetic exegesis known as historicism. Historicism connected biblical prophecies with historical events, and used a number of rules for determining dates. The Bahá'í Faith began in Iran in 1844. The Bahá'ís in America used the Millerite predictions as both a "proof" of the Bahá'í Faith's truth, and as a useful tool in converting American Protestants to the new religion. The Bahá'í approach, while superficially similar to that of the Millerites, serves as proof of an event that has already occurred. It represents, also, the culmination and close of date-setting based upon pre-Bahá'í sacred scriptures.
notes	M.S.Sc.
language	English
keywords	MILLENNIALISM; MILLER, WILLIAM; MILLERITES; PROPHECY AND PROPHECIES; CHRISTIANITY; ADVENTISM; HISTORICISM; UNITED STATES
number of pages	[1], i, 103
university	Syracuse University

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