The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible

by Donald Harman Akenson

In the early twentieth century, a new, American scripture appeared on the scene. It was the product of a school of theological thinking known as Dispensationalism, which offered a striking new way of reading the Bible, one that focused attention squarely on the end-times. That scripture, The Scofield Reference Bible, would become the ur-text of American apocalyptic evangelicalism, and later, a core text of America's white Christian nationalism.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197599796
• ISBN13: 9780197599792
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"