{"product_id":"catholics-and-millennialism-9781433129643","title":"Catholics and Millennialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilosophers of religion such as Mark Kingwell regard millenarian dreams as humanity's most powerful hopes for transformation, transcendence, apocalypse, and utopia. In \u003cem\u003eCatholics and Millennialism: A Theo-Linguistic Guide\u003c\/em\u003e, Warren A. Kappeler III explores the insights of critical discourse theory to examine the impact of millenarian groups upon Catholics. He examines theo-linguistic practices among present-day Catholics through allegorical interpretation, fundamentalism, and neo-literalism. Utilizing surveys of pre-millennial movements as revealed in academic research by Michael Cuneo, William Dinges, and Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, as well as post-millennial collaboration by progressive Catholics such as Hans Küng, Matthew Fox, and Karen Armstrong; Kappeler argues that apocalyptic stories and media images in today's popular culture promote a self-dramatization that encourages sympathetic Catholics to interpret their life experience within the grammar of the millennium myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026lt;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments – Introduction: Post-Modern Semiotic Perspectives on Catholic Humanism \u0026amp; Liturgical Calendrics – Catholic Realism \u0026amp; Augustinian ‘Anti-Millennialism’ – Rhetorical Controversies in Catholic \u003ci\u003eEschata\u003c\/i\u003e: The Millennium Myth \u0026amp; Inter-textual Historiography – Pre-Millennialism, Tradition, \u0026amp; Conservative Catholics – Post-Millennialism, Liberal Catholics, \u0026amp; Social Progress – Proleptic Ethics: From Moral Panics to Apologetics – Conclusion: Theo-Poetics \u0026amp; Post-Catholic Worldviews – Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039584911703,"sku":"9781433129643","price":81.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433129643.jpg?v=1750944171","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/catholics-and-millennialism-9781433129643","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}