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Four Millerism and the Schematic Imagination
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Published:August 1999
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ntebellum religious life in the United States was strongly colored by the early republic’s radical evangelical egalitarians, who were steeped in revival and a fiery rhetoric attacking traditional church polity. By contrast, the ATS’s accentuation of union and cooperation was a move to avoid evangelical factionalism and to focus energies on a clear, even single-minded agenda. The ATS, which rooted itself in the middle class and filled its executive committees with judges, lawyers, and divines, sought to forge an evangelical consensus from unity that was a safer bet than the radicalism of figures like Elias Smith or Lorenzo Dow. But the leaders of Millerism and Seventh-Day Adventism, impelled by a deep sense of urgency, threw caution to the wind and indulged in the heady experience of liberty and egalitarianism that celebrated the disestablishment of religion, fired the Second Great Awakening, and led to a flurry of upstart preachers and popular religious movements.1 Millerite and Seventh-Day Adventism were premised on the revolutionary notion that the individual possessed the inherent right and capacity to decide for him or herself in what spiritual truth consisted. The evangelical belief in access to the Bible assumed that the Bible could be successfully interpreted by anyone who genuinely tried to understand it.
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