“It is a Strange Thing”: The Millennial Blindness of Christopher Columbus
This article focuses on what is widely recognized to have been the primary ideological basis for Christopher Columbus' voyages of “discovery,” namely his millennialism. The article's thesis is that it was Columbus' millennialism that led to an essential moral contradiction between Col...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2009
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Missiology
Year: 2009, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 333-353 |
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| Summary: | This article focuses on what is widely recognized to have been the primary ideological basis for Christopher Columbus' voyages of “discovery,” namely his millennialism. The article's thesis is that it was Columbus' millennialism that led to an essential moral contradiction between Columbus' deeply held Christian convictions and his ill-treatment of the indigenous peoples that he encountered. |
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| ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182960903700303 |