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In the early twentieth century, a new, American scripture appeared on the scene. It was the product of a school of theological thinking known as Dispensationalism, which offered a striking new way of reading the Bible, one that focused attention squarely on the end-times. That scripture, The Scofield Reference Bible, would become the ur-text of American apocalyptic evangelicalism, and later, a core text of America's white Christian nationalism.
In The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible Donald Harman Akenson examines the creation and spread of Dispensationalism. The story is a transnational one: created in southern Ireland by evangelical Anglicans, who were terrified by the rise of Catholicism, then transferred to England, where it was expanded upon and next carried to British North America by "Brethren" missionaries and then subsequently embraced by American evangelicals.
Akenson combines a respect for individual human agency with an equal recognition of the complex and persuasive ideational system that apocalyptic Dispensationalism presented. For believers, the system explained the world and its future. For the wider culture, the product of this rich evolution was a series of concepts that became part of the everyday vocabulary of American life: end-times, apocalypse, Second Coming, Rapture, and millennium. The Americanization of the Apocalypse is the first book to document, using direct archival evidence, the invention of the epochal Scofield Reference Bible, and thus the provenance of modern American evangelicalism.
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Geography Counts
Chapter 1: Ireland: Not the Garden of Eden
Chapter 2: Becoming True Britons
Chapter 3: Preparing for North America
Part Two: The New Continent
Chapter 4: The Great Inland Sea
Chapter 5: The Best Available Personnel
Chapter 6: Riding an Everyday Diaspora
Part Three: Mass Diffusion
Chapter 7: Import Licences
Chapter 8: Buyers' Remorse?
Chapter 9: The Wasp-Waist Passage
Chapter 10: Tall Man Standing
Chapter 11: The Mist that was Moody
Chapter 12: The Long Prophetic Party, 1875-1895
Part IV: Building a New Scripture
Chapter 13: Checking Behind the Curtain
Chapter 14: As Original as Sin?
Chapter 15: Garnering Resources
Chapter 16: Big Deal at Amen Corner
Chapter 17: Yet More Helpful Friends
Chapter 18: Unto the Last Day
Chapter 19: Audit: Taking it all in
Appendix: The Physics of Upper-Canadian Protestantism
Bibliography
Index
