These three papers explore apocalyptic abolitionism, anti-creedalism, and the dichotomy between the far-right and far-left in politics and religion in nineteenth and early twentieth century American religion.
This paper assesses the anti-slavery perspectives on Millerism as articulated through the anti-slavery press and challenges the notion that catastrophic, doomsday, date-setting apocalypticism is antithetical to social reform.
This paper analyzes outside perspectives on Seventh-day Adventism and its eschatological claims by comparing two radically different and conflicting intellectual worlds: the far right and far left in the political and religious spectrum.
This paper examines the anti-creedal claims of early Seventh-day Adventism, arguing both that Adventism inherited and borrowed this stance from other movements, and that its anti-creedalism was ambiguous and fluid, betraying an implicit creedalism.