[eBook] [PDF] For The Americanization of the Apocalypse Creating America’s Own Bible 1st Edition By Donald Harman Akenson

[eBook] [PDF] For The Americanization of the Apocalypse Creating America’s Own Bible 1st Edition By Donald Harman Akenson

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.