Article: Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession.(Brief Article)

By Robert Fuller Oxford University Press. 232 pp., $25. 00.

A RESPECTED SCHOLAR of perimeter religions in America, Robert Fuller has produced a sober, carefully researched study of the American obsession with the Antichrist. In a historical survey, the author traces how Americans have identified "the ultimate enemy of Christ" and their reasons for doing so. Starting with exegetical explorations into the appropriate texts (John, Daniel and Revelation), Fuller brings the story up to the present.

Americans became obsessed with Antichrist themes in the early colonial days. The actual entity (person or movement) changes over the decades but the need for locating ...

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