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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
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...
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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. Cover -- The Americanization of the Apocalypse -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Migration of Ideas -- PART I. GEOGRAPHY COUNTS -- 1. Ireland: Not the Garden of Eden -- 2. Becoming True Britons -- 3. Preparing for North America -- PART II. THE NEW CONTINENT -- 4. The Great Inland Sea -- 5. The Best Available Personnel -- 6. Riding an Everyday Diaspora -- PART III. MASS DIFFUSION -- 7. Import Licences -- 8. Buyers' Remorse? -- 9. The Wasp-Waist Passage -- 10. Tall Man Standing -- 11. The Mist That Was Moody -- 12. The Long Prophetic Party, 1875-1895 -- PART IV BUILDING A NEW SCRIPTURE -- 13 Checking behind the Curtain -- 14. As Original as Sin? -- 15. Garnering Resources -- 16. Big Deal at Amen Corner -- 17. Yet More Helpful Friends -- 18. Unto the Last Day -- 19. Audit: Taking It All In -- Appendix: The Physics of Upper Canadian Protestantism -- Bibliography -- Index.
