The Common Hour: Preparing for Doomsday

Dr. Matthew Sutton's talk analyzes the work of David Koresh, Harold Camping, and Billy Graham. While most Americans may want to separate the violent prophecies of Koresh, the date-setting urgency of Camping, and the mainstream evangelicalism of Graham, the work of these prophets of apocalypse has far more in common than most men and women realize. The ideas of Koresh, Camping, and Graham all emerged from the same long river of American Protestant apocalypticism and together they demonstrate the continuing power and appeal of doomsday beliefs in modern United States history.