@article{1359069,
      recid = {1359069},
      author = {Crome, Andrew.,},
      title = {Christian Zionism and English National Identity, 1600-1850  /},
      pages = {1 online resource (VIII, 305 pages 1 illustration in  color.) :},
      abstract = {This book explores why English Christians, from the early  modern period onwards, believed that their nation had a  special mission to restore the Jews to Palestine. It  examines English support for Jewish restoration from the  Whitehall Conference in 1655 through to public debates on  the Jerusalem Bishopric in 1841. Rather than claiming to  replace Israel as God's "elect nation", England was  "chosen" to have a special, but inferior, relationship with  the Jews. Believing that God "blessed those who bless" the  Jewish people, this national role allowed England to atone  for ill-treatment of Jews, read the confusing pathways of  providence, and guarantee the nation's survival until  Christ's return. This book analyses this mode of national  identity construction and its implications for  understanding Christian views of Jews, the self, and "the  other". It offers a new understanding of national election,  and of the relationship between apocalyptic prophecy and  political action.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1359069},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77194-6},
}