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16 - American Evangelicals and the Apocalypse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2020

By
Daniel G. Hummel
Edited by
Colin McAllister
Colin McAllister
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
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Summary

This historical overview of American evangelical attitudes towards the apocalypse illustrates its consistent presence as an existential issue in the community, fueling theological debate, cultural productions, and political activism.

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dispensationalismraptureChristian Rightpremillennialism
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The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature , pp. 288 - 315
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Selected Further Reading

Ariel, Yaakov. An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians and Jews. New York: New York University Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Boyer, Paul. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1994.Google Scholar
Frykholm, Amy. Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gloege, Timothy. Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.Google Scholar
Gribben, Crawford. Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gribben, Crawford, and Sweetnam, Mark S., eds. Left Behind and the Evangelical Imagination. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2011.Google Scholar
Hummel, Daniel G. Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.–Israeli Relations. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.Google Scholar
Lahr, Angela M. Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: The Cold War Origins of Political Evangelicalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Marsden, George. Fundamentalism and American Culture. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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