American apocalypse : a history of modern evangelicalism /

The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. Matthew Avery Sutton draws on extensive archival research to document the ways a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sutton, Matthew Avery, 1975- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Evangelicalism > United States > History > 20th century. United States > Church history > 20th century. Millennialism > United States > History > 20th century. Millennialism. Evangelicalism. United States. Evangelikale Bewegung. USA. 1900 - 1999 Apocalypticism > United States. Church history. History.

Table of Contents:

Jesus is coming
Global war and Christian nationalism
The birth of fundamentalism
The culture wars begin
American education on trial
Seeking salvation with the gop
The rise of the tyrants
Christ's deal vs. the new deal
Reviving American exceptionalism
Becoming cold warriors for Christ
Apocalypse now.