The Americanization of the Apocalypse by Donald Harman Akenson
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Donald Akenson has spent decades pursuing his fascination with scriptural texts, and it shows in this brilliant weaving of documents and individual biographiesProminent among the transatlantic cast is the entrepreneurial creator of the Scofield Reference Bible. Cyrus Scofield's cross-references and annotations offered to unlock the Bible's secrets about the end of time by peddling a Dispensationalist key. Akenson makes a startling proposition: this visual framing of the KJV text created a new Bible-and in doing so changed American evangelicalism." * Phyllis D. Airhart, Professor Emerita of the History of Christianity, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto *
The culmination of thirty years of prodigious research, written with a breathtaking intellectual range (and attention to detail) that is typical of Donald Akenson's celebrated scholarship, The Americanization of the Apocalypse is the definitive history of John Nelson Darby, the Plymouth Brethren, and an eschatological movement that would begin to reorient Anglo-American Protestantism in the nineteenth century before revolutionizing it in the twentieth. Striking for its attention to topography as well as theology, transnational currents as well as regional subtleties, Akenson's book is a must read for anyone trying to understand the roots of modern evangelicalism." * Darren Dochuk, Author of Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America *
The Americanization of the Apocalypse traces what Akenson refers to as the "migration of ideas" through the peoples, events, and particular scholars and religious leaders to try to understand the foundations of this movement in America...The density of Akenson's text and the expanse of footnotes demonstrates the volume's scholarly character...Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * Choice *
The Americanization of the Apocalypse brings much-needed nuance to the richness of dispensational Christianity as an Anglo-Irish-American set of nineteenth-century religious innovations. The book is anchored by Akenson's deep familiarity with the primary sources and the relevant historiography. He brings an expansive view of historical interpretation to the table and also, as always, masterful writing. * Brian Froese, The Direction *
This book, along with the two preceding volumes in the trilogy, is an enlightening and engrossing read. * David B. Marshall, Project Muse *
The culmination of thirty years of prodigious research, written with a breathtaking intellectual range (and attention to detail) that is typical of Donald Akenson's celebrated scholarship, The Americanization of the Apocalypse is the definitive history of John Nelson Darby, the Plymouth Brethren, and an eschatological movement that would begin to reorient Anglo-American Protestantism in the nineteenth century before revolutionizing it in the twentieth. Striking for its attention to topography as well as theology, transnational currents as well as regional subtleties, Akenson's book is a must read for anyone trying to understand the roots of modern evangelicalism." * Darren Dochuk, Author of Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America *
The Americanization of the Apocalypse traces what Akenson refers to as the "migration of ideas" through the peoples, events, and particular scholars and religious leaders to try to understand the foundations of this movement in America...The density of Akenson's text and the expanse of footnotes demonstrates the volume's scholarly character...Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * Choice *
The Americanization of the Apocalypse brings much-needed nuance to the richness of dispensational Christianity as an Anglo-Irish-American set of nineteenth-century religious innovations. The book is anchored by Akenson's deep familiarity with the primary sources and the relevant historiography. He brings an expansive view of historical interpretation to the table and also, as always, masterful writing. * Brian Froese, The Direction *
This book, along with the two preceding volumes in the trilogy, is an enlightening and engrossing read. * David B. Marshall, Project Muse *
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| ISBN 13 | 9780197802199 |
| ISBN 10 | 0197802192 |
| Title | The Americanization of the Apocalypse |
| Author | Donald Harman Akenson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2026-06-19 |
| Number of pages | 520 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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