Millenialism and the Progressive Movement

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07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Gary North

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Murray Rothbard was seriously interested in a remarkably large array of topics, one of them being the effects of rival eschatological views during the Progressive era. The period was marked by four major eschatological views: postmillennialism, amillennialism, and the two forms of premillennialism, historic and dispensational (a post-1830 development).

Volume 12, Number 1 (1996)

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North, Gary. “Millenialism and the Progressive Movement.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 12, No. 1 (1996): 121–142.

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