Imagining the End: Visions of

When Time Shall Be No More

, pp. 



–



.



. Angus Reid Group Cross-Border Survey, ‘Canada/U.S. Religion and Politics’, p. 



.

Printout of  results, dated 



 October 



. My thanks to Professor Mark Noll, Wheaton

College, Wheaton, Illinois, for making these data accessible to me. The poll included a scien-

tifically selected sample of  



,



 Americans and 



,



 Canadians. Among self-designated

‘conservative Christians’, belief  in a coming battle of  Armageddon approached 



 per cent.



. Helen Lee Turner and James L. Guth, ‘The Politics of  Armageddon: The Impact of

Premillennialism and Dispensationalism on the Political Orientation of Southern Baptist Clergy’,

paper delivered at annual meeting of  the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 



–



 April 



, p. 



. (Based on a survey conducted in 



–



.)



. James Davison Hunter, 

American Evangelicalism: Conservative Religion and the Quandary

of Modernity

 (New Brunswick, NJ, 



) contains many valuable data on the economic, educa-

tional, gender, racial and geographic patterns in the ranks of  American evangelicalism, where

biblical literalism and interest in Bible prophecy is most deeply rooted.



. Boyer, 

When Time Shall Be No More

, pp. 



–



.



. Hal Lindsey, 

Planet Earth—



 A.D.

 (Palos Verdes, CA, 



); Jack Van Impe, 



:

On the Edge of Eternity

 (Dallas, TX, 



); Ed Dobson, 

The End: Why Jesus Could Return by

A.D. 



 (Grand Rapids, MI, 



).



. Unless otherwise indicated, this section draws upon Chapter 



 of  Boyer, 

When Time

Shall Be No More

, ‘The Final Chastisement of  the Chosen’ (pp. 



–



). Readers seeking

further details and documentation may consult that chapter and its supporting documentation

in the end notes (pp. 



–



).



. Linda Seidel, ‘Apocalypse and Apocalypticism in Western Medieval Art’, in Bernard

McGinn (ed.), 

Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism

, Vol. 



 (New York,

  

), pp. 



–



, esp.

pp.



–



.



. Roberto Rusconi, ‘Antichrist and Antichrists’, in McGinn (ed.), 

Encyclopedia of Apoca-

lypticism, 

Vol. 



, pp. 



–



, esp. pp. 



–



; Boyer, 

When Time Shall Be No More, 

p.



.



. Bernard McGinn, ‘Apocalypticism and Church Reform, 



–



’, in McGinn (ed.),