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Book SynopsisFirst full length academic work to situate the theology of Richard Brothers into its larger political and cultural context. -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
I Image of the divine: origins and prophetic awakenings, 1757-1795
Introduction: Inspiration, imagination and the pegasus of prophetic faith
1. Songs of innocence: origins in Placentia
2. Prophetic awakenings: angels, visions and the immortal demons of futurity
II Image of the Beast: treason, lunacy and legal death, 1795-1798
3. Songs of experience: prophecies and times
4. London: Babylon’s spiritual sister
5. The religious politics of prophecy: or, Richard Brothers’s Revealed Knowledge confuted
6. ‘To enlighten the world from A MAD-HOUSE!’ Confinement and the manacles of medical restraint
III A plan of the estate, 1798-1802
7. An excursion of the imagination: Jerusalem restored
8. Sacred territory and the New Covenant of God’s Holy Kingdom
IV Farewell green fields, 1802-1824
9. Satan came and mocked: Richard Brothers, Joanna Southcott and the serpent in Paradise
Conclusion The Paddington Prophet
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