Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism

Apocalyptic millennialism is one of the most powerful strands in evangelical Christianity. It is not a single belief, but across many powerful evangelical groups there is general adhesion to faith in the physical return of Jesus in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture heavenward of "saved" believers, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints and, eventually, a final judgement and entry into deep eternity.
In Discovering the End of Time (2016) Donald Harman Akens...