Author/Contributor(s): | Hill, Christopher |
Publisher: | Verso |
Date: | 06/17/1990 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
Christopher Hill, one of Britain’s most distinguished historians, here reconstructs the significance of Antichrist during the revolutionary crises of the early seventeenth century. Radical Protestant sects applied the term—a name synonymous with repression and persecution—to those Establishment institutions of which they disapproved; in particular, the Pope. Then, with that revolution in thought which resulted in the separation of religion from politics, the figure of Antichrist lost its significance.