I think I can safely assume that for most Americans, Camping and his miscalculated (and then re-calculated) doomsday predictions are of more curiosity than true salvific concern. Camping has been buried by subsequent news cycles and is the latest member of a cadre of religious leaders whom the Apocalypse passed by. But while May’s Apocalypse seems to have skipped over most of the world, it did land squarely on a hilltop in north-western Vietnam. It would behoove us to take notice of the complex and unexpected ways in which this spring’s apocalypticism rippled across the world…
Jason Bruner
Jason Bruner is a doctoral candidate at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ. He has published essays on Christian missions and the history of Christianity in East Asia and Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is currently writing his dissertation, which is a historical study of the East African Revival in Uganda in the 1930s-1940s.
