Distributed for University of Wales Press
Coming Deliverer, The
Millennial Themes in World Religions
Table of Contents
Dedication to Cyril Williams
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
1 Equilibrium and the end of time:
the roots of millenarianism
FIONA BOWIE
2 Deliverance and human destiny in
Zoroastrianism
CYRIL WILLIAMS
3 Maitreya, the Buddhist Messiah
CHRIS ARTHUR
4 The coming deliverer - a Sikh perspective
W. OWEN COLE
5 Messianic hope in Second Temple Judaism
JONATHAN G. CAMPBELL
6 Eschatological hope in the early Christian community -
New Testament perspectives
D.P. DAVIES
7 Beware the trumpet of judgment!:
John Nelson Darby and the nineteenth-century Brethren
KENT EATON
8 ’Take one, it’s FREE!’: the story behind the
Worldwide Church of God and The Plain
Truth magazine
NEIL O’CONNOR
9 The Lord of the Second Advent -
the deliverer is here!
SARAH M. LEWIS
10 Old ideas in new forms: millennial
movements in the Republic of Turkey
DAVID SHANKLAND
11 When prophecy fails: messianism amongst
Lubavitcher Hasids
SIMON DIEN
Index