{"id":66207,"date":"2017-12-12T12:06:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66207"},"modified":"2017-12-12T19:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T00:14:52","slug":"ccjason-byasee-the-value-of-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66207","title":{"rendered":"(CC)Jason Byasee&#8211;The value of apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the most influential thinker in the history of American culture? A case can be made for John Nelson Darby, the 19th-century former Church of Ireland priest who cooked up what we now call premillennial dispensationalism\u2014an es\u00adchatological scheme by which disasters natural and supernatural presage the return of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Aveni and Lisa Vox describe how American culture, politics, and apocalypticism have been braided together in ways that tend toward paranoid conspiratorial fearmongering peddled as Christianity. Darby\u2019s mistake\u2014I would call it a heresy\u2014has shaped the politics that rule our country and our world. That\u2019s a much grander claim than these two good books by appropriately modest historians would ever let themselves make. Yet I think it\u2019s the clear conclusion they offer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/review\/books\/value-apocalypse\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the most influential thinker in the history of American culture? A case can be made for John Nelson Darby, the 19th-century former Church of Ireland priest who cooked up what we now call premillennial dispensationalism\u2014an es\u00adchatological scheme by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66207\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,92,186,178,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-books","category-church-history","category-eschatology","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66212,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66207\/revisions\/66212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}