{"product_id":"1813-aaron-kinne-early-american-eschatology","title":"1813 AARON KINNE. Early American Eschatology - Predicts End of the World in 1866. A Swing and a Miss.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fascinating work, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAaron Kinne’s, \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"25\"\u003eA Display of Scriptural Prophecies\u003c\/i\u003e, servesd as a sort of intellectual bridge between late eighteenth-century historicist theology and the explosive growth of Millerism, Seventh-day Adventism, and other millennialist movements that characterized the mid-nineteenth century in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003eWriting in the wake of the French Revolution and amid the socio-political transformations of the early American Republic, Kinne attempted to synthesize centuries of prophetic commentary to map biblical prophecy directly onto chronological, real-world history, included in the present pages. By systematically aligning the timelines of Daniel, Hosea, and the Book of Revelation with the rise and fall of global empires, this work exemplifies the early nineteenth-century American obsession with calculating the exact timing of the end times and the dawn of the millennial kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003eKinne's text inadvertently laid the exact hermeneutical groundwork that William Miller and his followers would later popularize. Long before the \"Great Disappointment\" of 1844, mainstream Congregationalist and Presbyterian scholars like Kinne were standardizing the \"day-year principle\" (interpreting prophetic days as literal calendar years) and popularizing the expectation that the cleansing of the sanctuary or the onset of the millennium would occur in the early-to-mid nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003eRather than being a sudden, radical departure from American religious life, the intense apocalypticism of the Millerites and early Adventists was actually a direct escalation of the formal, academically minded eschatology pioneered by writers like Kinne. His work captures the precise moment when speculative prophecy moved out of isolation and became a structured, mathematical discipline within the early American religious consciousness, fueling the climate of intense spiritual anticipation that gave birth to entirely new domestic religious movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003eYou will note he puts a pin on the board at 1866 on the final page [which we include in the listing]. It appears we're really, really not good at predicting the end of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKinne, Aaron. A Display of Scriptural Prophecies, with their Events, and the Periods of their Accomplishment. Compiled from Rollin, Prideaux, Newton, and Other Eminent Writers. Boston. Samuel T. Armstrong. 20pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood -, textually complete with copious early ownership marks on title. Some foxing, removed from a larger sammelband. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51074075394084,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/07-17-2026_Specs_Fine_Books-86.jpg?v=1784388529","url":"https:\/\/specsfinebooks.com\/products\/1813-aaron-kinne-early-american-eschatology","provider":"Specs Fine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}