Prophecy and Politics: Militant Evangelists on the Road to Nuclear War

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By Grace Halsell

Lawrence Hill, 1986, 200 pp

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The alarming title of this reportage is slightly misleading. The subject is the role of the ancient (Old Testament) and modern state of Israel in the theological cosmography and eschatology of Jerry Falwell and other American evangelists. The author believes that nuclear war is a possible consequence of the kind of thinking she describes.

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