This book offers the first complete overview of the intellectual history of one of the most significant contemporary cultural trends – the apocalyptic expectations of European and American evangelicals – in an account that guides readers into the origins, its evolution, and its revolutionary potential in the modern world.

CRAWFORD GRIBBEN is Professor of Early Modern British History in the School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast, and is the author of a number of books on the literary cultures of puritanism and evangelicalism.