Coming Deliverer, The
Millennial Themes in World Religions
9780708313381
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
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