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The Scofield Bible

In 1909, the first version of the Scofield Bible comes out. It is immediately very popular among the Moody movement crowd because it seems to just basically give some heft to things that people talk about in their sermons. But Scofield's Bible becomes sort of the default Bible of the more conservative wing of the Moody movement. Part of that is because Scofield assumes biblical inerrancy. He rejects Darwinism. These things will become major issues in the 1920s.

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How did a theological system that rejected Christian participation in politics eventually give birth to the Religious Right? Phil talks to historian Daniel Hummel about the spread of rapture theology in the 20th century, why it spawned so many conspiracies, the legacy of the Left Behind books, and why rapture theology remains so popular despite being rejected by nearly every evangelical seminary. Also this week, why did controversial author, Joshua Butler, resign from his church? The embrace of Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump by the Religious Right is proof that the movement is now entirely post-Christian. And reflections on the coronation of King Charles III.

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