Millenarians in the Pennines, 1800–1830: Building and Believing Jerusalem

Lockley, Philip

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“…20 Over time, Wroe's reported direction to preach to European Jews merged with specific traditions of ideas about Israel held by existing Southcottians, to shape a new body of beliefs about the millennium. 21 While Southcott had encouraged her followers to think of themselves as the sealed 144,000 of Revelation 7, identified as "the tribes of the children of Israel," other visitation prophets, notably Richard Brothers and George Turner, had supplemented this understanding with the specific doctrine that they were the children of Israel, descendants of the legendary ten "lost tribes." 22 In the early 1820s, many Southcottians believed that they (and thousands of others in the British population) were "hidden Hebrews," destined to join their Judaic cousins scattered across Europe in actualising biblical events.…”

Section: S Beginnings and Beliefsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Missionaries of the Millennium: Israelite Preachers in the English‐Speaking World, 1823–1863

Lockley¹

2013

Journal of Religious History

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This article recovers the global history of the English millennial religion of Southcottianism. After Joanna Southcott died in 1814, leaving thousands of English followers still expecting the millennium that she prophesied, elements of her movement generated further prophets and a dynamic missionary division known as "Israelite Preachers." From the 1820s onwards, these preachers took Southcott's ideas and new doctrines developed by her successor, John Wroe, throughout the British Isles, then the English-speaking world, most notably Australia and North America. Drawing mission approaches (and recruits) from revivalist dissent, Israelite preachers forged first a Britain-wide sect, then a global movement which followed the British settler diaspora and competed with rival American millennialisms. The spread of Southcottianism is a forgotten episode in the story of nineteenth-century British colonial missions, and an argument for examining millennial movements beside more mainstream Christianity.

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Section: S Beginnings and Beliefsmentioning

confidence: 99%