Bohemian Non-Catholics and Languedoc nouveaux-convertis: Prophetic and Sectarian Movements in a Comparative Perspective
2013
Abstract
The following article is an attempt to compare early modern eschatological visions and ideas among Bohemian non-Catholics at home and in exile with those of secret French Huguenots in the 17th and 18th centuries. These intentionally chosen contrastive cases raise interesting questions and conclusions, bringign new perpective into the well know topic.
While the divine apocalyptic visions in the Bohemian milieu until the end of the 18th century saw the moment of reversal and the opportunity to overthrow the Antichrist in the coming of a divinely predestined ruler, French Protestant prophecies appealed almost exclusively to the glory and redemptive power of Christ and his reign on earth.