caa a22 4500 386309914 CHVBK 20180307111542.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0361233300006803 doi S0361233300006803 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0361233300006803 Balmer Randall Apocalypticism in America: The Argot of Premillennialism in Popular Culture [Elektronische Daten] [Randall Balmer] On the evening of good friday, 1878, Charles Taze Russell and a handful of followers, all clad in white robes, gathered at the Sixth Street Bridge in Pittsburgh to await the Millennial Dawn, which would provide their translation into heaven. His study of the Scriptures had convinced Russell, a haberdasher from Allegheny, Pennsylvania, that Christ had returned invisibly in 1874 and that now, three-and-a-half years later, the kingdom of God would begin, and the faithful would be summoned to heaven. Russell later denied the incident—Pittsburgh newspapers insisted otherwise-and revised his theology to accommodate this disappointment. The Kingdom of Jehovah, he said, would begin in 1914, whereupon God and Satan would rule the world jointly until the Battle of Armageddon vanquished the forces of evil and inaugurated a theocratic millennium. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 Prospects Cambridge University Press 13(1988-10), 417-433 0361-2333 13<417 1988 13 PTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006803 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006803 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Balmer Randall NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prospects Cambridge University Press 13(1988-10), 417-433 0361-2333 13<417 1988 13 PTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge