Donald Harman Akenson

The Americanization of the Apocalypse

Creating America's Own Bible

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible Donald Harman Akenson examines the creation and spread of Dispensationalism, a belief system that produced The Scofield Reference Bible, the ur-text of American apocalyptic evangelicalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 880g
• ISBN-13: 9780197599792
• ISBN-10: 0197599796
• Artikelnr.: 67479378

Autorenporträt

Donald Harman Akenson is Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History at Queen's University, Ontario. He has published several award-winning books on the development of the Judeo-Christian tradition, most recently Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism (OUP 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

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