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About the Author
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).
Reviews
Donald Akenson has spent decades pursuing his fascination with scriptural texts, and it shows in this brilliant weaving of documents and individual biographies. Prominent 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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197599792
Author Donald Harman Akenson
Format Hardback
Page Count 520
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 164mm * 236mm * 36mm