Christian History Corner: Heaven Can't Wait
Mass suicides, like last week's in Uganda, may be a newer tactic, but the temptation to predict, even force, the coming of kingdom bliss is not.
By Elesha Coffman | posted 3/01/2000 12:00AM
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More Christian History, including a listing of events that occurred this week in the church's past, is available at
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subscribe to the quarterly print magazine.For more on the history of millennial thought, see Christian History issue 61: The End, available
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print form.PBS's NewsHour site offers a
transcript of its March 27, 1997 show, with audio clips, a background report, and a forum.News reports and other resources about the Ugandan doomsday cult is available at
Yahoo's full coverage area.Coffman took an earlier look at apocalyptic history in her review of PBS's "
Apocalypse!" Her article, "
The Revelation Will Be Televised | 'Apocalypse!,' tonight's episode of PBS's Frontline, gets better after its biblical criticism," appeared November 22, 1999, on ChristianityToday.com.Christian History Corner appears every Friday at ChristianityToday.com. Previous Christian History Corners include:Forgive and Remember | Pope John Paul II's apology was unprecedented, but not entirely unique (March 17, 2000)
Modernism's Moses | Harry Emerson Fosdick, one of the century's most controversial Christians, devoted much of his life to fighting fundamentalism. (March 10, 2000)
The Man They Made a Monkey | William Jennings Bryan won the battle but lost the war against teaching evolution in the schools. (March 10, 2000)
Guess Who? | Can you identify the most influential Christians of the twentieth century? (Feb. 29, 2000)
An Ambitious Aboltionist Account | In Tim Stafford's novel Stamp of Glory, the main character is a movement (Feb. 18, 2000)
The Caged Bird Wrote | If only CBS had chosen a true heroine for Black History Month … (Feb. 11, 2000)
A Cave of One's Own | Who were the early church's 'desert mothers'? (Feb. 4, 2000)
For Better or Worse | The Church of England's current wrestling with divorce echoes its inception (Jan 28, 2000)
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