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    Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism
    Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism
    Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism
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    Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism

    Written by Donald H. Akenson

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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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.

    A key figure in this process was John Nelson Darby. Akenson emphasizes that, as strong a personality as 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 12, 2018
    ISBN9781977330109
    Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism

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      Narrator being American, cannot pronounce correctly many words , that British English speakers can