{"id":85438,"date":"2019-10-11T16:31:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85438"},"modified":"2019-10-11T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:04:33","slug":"catholic-herald-heretic-of-the-week-john-nelson-darby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85438","title":{"rendered":"(Catholic Herald) Heretic of the week: John Nelson Darby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darby also originated a brand of eschatology call Dispensationalism, which holds that true Christians shall be raptured before the events leading up to the Second Coming and Last Judgment. He preached his Gospel throughout Britain, the United States, Canada, and even Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>While Darby\u2019s views on ecclesiology gained few followers in America, his Dispensationalism has been a big hit among Evangelicals ever since, among other things injecting the whole idea of \u201cthe Rapture\u201d into American pop culture and spawning the Left Behind series of novels and films. Alas, before he died the movement broke into two sections \u2013 one of which he chose and remained in until he died.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicherald.co.uk\/magazine\/heretic-of-the-week-john-nelson-darby\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Picture of John Nelson Darby, 19th C Brethren leader. Feel that Peter Capaldi would be ideal casting for a biopic: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/SDFI0I76aa\">pic.twitter.com\/SDFI0I76aa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Crome (@Andrew_Crome) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Andrew_Crome\/status\/524968961507872768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darby also originated a brand of eschatology call Dispensationalism, which holds that true Christians shall be raptured before the events leading up to the Second Coming and Last Judgment. He preached his Gospel throughout Britain, the United States, Canada, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85438\">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":[186,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-eschatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85438","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=85438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85440,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85438\/revisions\/85440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}