For too long, many scholars have argued that Christian groups obsessed with a coming apocalypse are so other-worldly focused that they have little impact on the politics or cultures around them. Those scholars are wrong. Rather than fostering a sense of indifference regarding the coming of an inevitable end of days, apocalypse-obsessed Christians have used their beliefs as a call to battle rather than a justification for withdrawal. God, they insist, has given them much to do and very little time in which to do it. Positive that Jesus is coming soon, they have sought converts and engaged directly and aggressively with their cultures, preparing themselves and others for what is to come. Christopher James Blythe's Terrible Revolution shows us that this is especially true of those within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Since the time of Jesus, Christians have at times obsessed over the Bible's predictions...
