RT Article
T1 The Fifth Monarchy Men: Politics and the Millennium
JF Church history
VO 30
IS 3
SP 314
OP 324
A1 Solt, Leo F. 1921-1994
LA English
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1961
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1647175801
AB Of the Puritan sects which proliferated in Cromwellian England, the Fifth Monarchy Men were distinctive because of the extreme political implications which they drew from their deep commitment to millennialism. Sometimes called “millenaries” by their fellow countrymen, or “anabaptists” by continental observers, this sects wanted to set up the kingdom of Jesus Christ for His thousand-year rule by the Saints. Its members hoped to realize their quest for a religious utopia by making the old kingdoms of the Stuarts into new saintly kingdoms of the Lord. In order to carry out this idea, several of the leading Fifth Monarchy spokesmen urged Oliver Cromwell to convoke a “Jewish Sanhedrin” or Parliament of Saints which first assembled in June, 1653.
DO 10.2307/3161566