pg. 272, Please don't try this at home. American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism , Matthew Avery Sutton, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014, 459 pages. About 10-11 years ago, I underwent a major theological shift from Arminianism to Calvinism and eventually becoming confessionally reformed (if LBC 1689 counts.) Because of this change, I felt compelled to find the answer to this question, "Why did I believe what I used to believe?" So I began to read church history specifically of the late 19th and 20th centuries. But the more I read, I realized that other forces shaped the formation of American Christianity. So my reading broadened beyond the history of the church to the history of the nation. American Apocalypse is the latest of these books that I have fondly categorized as - grimly fascinating. Different historians have looked at the rise of fundamentalism and evangelicalism from different angles such as the Scopes trial 1 or the ...