{"product_id":"the-americanization-of-the-apocalypse-donald-harman-akenson-9780197802199","title":"The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible","description":"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, \u003cem\u003eThe Scofield Reference Bible\u003c\/em\u003e, would become the ur-text of American apocalyptic evangelicalism, and later, a core text of America's white Christian nationalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible \u003c\/em\u003eDonald Harman Akenson examines the creation and spread of Dispensationalism. The story is a transnational one: created in southern Ireland by evangelical Anglicans, who were terrified by the rise of Catholicism, then transferred to England, where it was expanded upon and next carried to British North America by \"Brethren\" missionaries and then subsequently embraced by American evangelicals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAkenson combines a respect for individual human agency with an equal recognition of the complex and persuasive ideational system that apocalyptic Dispensationalism presented. For believers, the system explained the world and its future. For the wider culture, the product of this rich evolution was a series of concepts that became part of the everyday vocabulary of American life: end-times, apocalypse, Second Coming, Rapture, and millennium. \u003cem\u003eThe Americanization of the Apocalypse\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to document, using direct archival evidence, the invention of the epochal Scofield Reference Bible, and thus the provenance of modern American evangelicalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Harman Akenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197802192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197802199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.17w x 1.40d","brand":"Donald Harman Akenson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48587583684863,"sku":"9780197802199","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-americanization-of-the-apocalypse-donald-harman-akenson-9780197802199","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}