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Exporting the Rapture - John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism (Hardcover)
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Exporting the Rapture - John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism (Hardcover)
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Apocalyptic millennialism is one of the most powerful strands in
evangelical Christianity. It is not a single belief, but across
many powerful evangelical groups there is general adhesion to faith
in the physical return of Jesus in the Second Coming, the
affirmation of a Rapture heavenward of "saved" believers, a
millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints and,
eventually, a final judgement and entry into deep eternity. In
Discovering the End of Time (2016) Donald Harman Akenson traced the
emergence of the primary packaging of modern apocalyptic
millennialism back to southern Ireland in the 1820s and '30s. In
Exporting the Rapture, he documents for the first time how the
complex theological construction that has come to dominate modern
evangelical thought was enhulled in an organizational system that
made it exportable from the British Isles to North America- and
subsequently around the world. A key figure in this process was
John Nelson Darby who was at first a formative influence on
evangelical apocalypticism in Ireland; then the volatile central
figure in Brethren apocalypticism throughout the British Isles; and
also a crusty but ultimately very successful missionary to the
United States and Canada. Akenson emphasizes that, as strong a
personality as John Nelson Darby was, the real story is that he
became a vector for the transmission of a terrifically complex and
highly seductive ideological system from the old world to the new.
So beguiling, adaptable, and compelling was the new Dispensational
system that Darby injected into North-American evangelicalism that
it continued to spread logarithmically after his death. By the
1920s, the system had become the doctrinal template of the
fundamentalist branch of North-American evangelicalism and the
distinguishing characteristic of the bestselling Scofield Bible.
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