if this book were an attempt to explain the entire human phenomenon of Christian eschatological hope, in its sociological and even psychological dimensions. However, its scope is rather more limited. Despite appearances, I do not “repudiate” sociological and anthropological analysis and would have been glad to give it more attention if someone had demonstrated how it is useful in distinguishing millennialists from non-millennialists in early Christianity. The usual stereotype for “millenarian groups”
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