I. 6 September – Introducing Millennialism
and Millenarian Movements
Baumgartner, Chapters 1 & 2
Fuller, pp. 14-30
Book of Daniel, Chapters
4-12 (on-line, if necessary)
Book of Revelation, Chapters
5-22 (on-line, if necessary)
II. 13 September – Time, Calendars,
and Y1K
Baumgartner, Chapter 3 & 4
Fuller, pp. 30-36
excerpt from the Latin
Tiburtine Sibyl (on-line)
excerpt from Pseudo-Methodius (on-line)
excerpt from Abbo of Fleury (on-line)
excerpt from Ekkehard of Aura (on-line)
III. 20 September – Medieval Millennial
Expectations
Baumgartner, Chapter 5
excerpt from Hildegard of Bingen (on-line)
excerpt from Joachim of Fiore, Part I
& Part II (on-line)
excerpt from Bernard Gui (on-line)
excerpt from the Confession of a Benguine
(on-line)
IV. 27 September – Reformation
Baumgartner, Chapter 6
Fuller, pp. 36-39
excerpt from Thomas
Muntzer, ‘Sermon to the Princes' (on-line)
V. 4 October – Puritans and a New
World Millennium
Baumgartner, Chapter 7 & 8
Fuller, Chapter 2
More on-line excerpts will be added
as the course progresses; please check the web page on a weekly
basis.
Paper Proposal Due
VI. 11 October – Visionary Women
Baumgartner, Chapter 10, 151-158.
VII. 18 October – Millennialism and
Sexuality
Baumgartner, Chapter 10, 159-166
Fuller, pp. 80-88
VIII. 25 October – William Miller
and the Adventist Tradition
Baumgartner, 167-179
Fuller, pp. 100-107
IX. 1 November – Modernism, Fundamentalism,
and War
Baumgartner, Chapter 12
Fuller, Chapter 4
Primary Research Papers Due
X. 8 November – The Chosen People
Baumgartner, 179-194 & Chapter 12
Fuller, 134-154
XI. 15 November – Atomic Millennium
Baumgartner, Chapter 13
Fuller, 154-164
XII. 22 November – Late Great Planet
Earth
Fuller, Chapter 6
XIII. 29 November – Waco: Misunderstanding
Millennialism
Baumgartner, Chapter 14
Popular Culture Project Due
