1 option
The Paddington prophet : Richard Brothers's journey to Jerusalem / Deborah Madden.
Van Pelt Library BF1815.B8 M33 2010
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Madden, Deborah, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brothers, Richard, 1757-1824.
- Brothers, Richard.
- Bible--Prophecies.
- Bible.
- Prophecies.
- Prophets--England--Biography.
- Prophets.
- Prophecies--History.
- Religion.
- History.
- Great Britain--Religion--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Contents:
- I Image of the divine: origins and prophetic awakenings, 1757-1795
- Introduction: Inspiration, imagination and the Pegasus of prophetic faith
- 1 Songs of innocence: origins in Placentia
- 2 Prophetic awakenings: angels, visions and the immortal demons of futurity
- II Image of the Beast: treason, lunacy and legal death, 1795-1798
- 3 Songs of experience: prophecies and times
- 4 London: Babylon's spiritual sister
- 5 The religious politics of prophecy: or, Richard Brothers's Revealed Knowledge confuted
- 6 'To enlighten the world from A MAD-HOUSE!' Confinement and the manacles of medical restraint
- III A plan of the estate, 1798-1802
- 7 An excursion of the imagination: Jerusalem restored
- 8 Sacred territory and the New Covenant of God's Holy Kingdom
- IV Farewell green fields, 1802-1824
- 9 Satan came and mocked: Richard Brothers, Joanna Southcott and the serpent in Paradise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780719082382
- 0719082382
- OCLC:
- 528397762
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.