TY - BOOK ID - 3476273 TI - Modernism, christianity and apocalypse AU - Tonning, Erik AU - Feldman, Matthew AU - Addyman, David AU - Brill PY - 2015 VL - 8 SN - 9789004278264 9789004282285 9004282289 9004278265 1322309728 PB - Leiden ; Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - 228 KW - Apocalyps. Boek der Openbaring van Johannes. Apocalyptiek KW - Modernism (Christian theology) KW - Apocalyptic literature KW - Modernism KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Modernist-fundamentalist controversy KW - History and criticism. KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3476273 AB - Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse stages an encounter between the fields of ‘Modernism and Christianity’ and ‘Apocalypse Studies’. The modernist impulse to ‘make it new’, to transform and reform culture, is an incipiently apocalyptic one, poised between imaginative representations of an Old Era or civilization and the experimental promise of the New. Christianity figures in formative tension with the ‘new’, but its apocalyptic paradigms continued to impact modernist visions of cultural revitalization. In three sections tracing a rough chronology from the late nineteenth century fin de siècle, via interwar conflicts and the rise of ‘political religions’, to post-1945 anxieties such as the Bomb, this thematic is explored in nineteen far-ranging scholarly contributions, outlining a distinctive and fresh interdisciplinary field of study. ER -