Fred Stella speaks with Donald H. Akenson.
'The Americanization of the Apocalypse' is the first book to document, using direct archival evidence, the creation of the ur-text of modern American evangelicalism, The Scofield Reference Bible, and examines the ways that the rise of modern American evangelicalism is actually a transnational story. (description from Queens' University)
Bio from his faculty page at Queen’s University:
Dr. Donald Akenson is an internationally acclaimed scholar and author who is considered the world's foremost authority on the Irish Diaspora. His previous books include: ‘Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds,’ ‘St. Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus,’ The two volume novel, ‘An Irish History of Civilization’ (London: Granta, 2006), ‘Discovering the End of Time: Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O’Connell’ (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), and ‘Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North American Evangelicalism’ (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
