Thesis (M.A.)--Cincinnati Bible Seminary, 1988. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-160).

Thesis--University of Chicago. / A Dissertation, submitted to the Graduate Faculty, in candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Church History. Typescript (carbon copy). Bibliography: leaves [141]-148.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1977. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [113]-124).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1977. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [113]-124).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1999. / "Proselelythate sion orei" appears in Greek letters on t.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [110]-119).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1977. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [113]-124).

Those who anticipate the end of the world are often met with ridicule. This is especially true with the Millerite movement of the 1830s and 1840s. David L. Rowe has referred to most historians' treatment of them as an episode of "comic relief in the otherwise complex and tragic play of events from Jacksonian Democracy to the Civil War." A number of scholars, starting in the 1980s, established that Millerites were not the lunatic fringe as they were once characterized, mainly by demonstrating that Millerites were not the only group in the antebellum United States harboring apocalyptic expectations, rescuing the Millerites from the fringe of the Second Great Awakening. Though critical to our understanding of Millerism, most of these studies have been inexorably confined to western New York, where the movement originated and gained the most support, virtually ignoring Millerites in other parts of the country. More importantly, these studies have failed to break down the entrenched dichotomy between the "optimistic" millennialists, represented by Finneyite evangelicals, and "pessimistic" millenarians, represented most clearly by the Millerites. By examining various aspects of the Millerite movement through its well-established press, this these shows that Millerism, more than a coherent social movement or ecclesiastical institution, was a meeting ground for various currents of millennial thought that were pervasive in the first fifty years of the American republic.

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Thesis (Th. M.)--Grace Theological Seminary, 1987. / Abstract. Bibliography: leaves 73-76.

Thesis (M. A.)--Lancaster Bible College, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-110).