Meanings: “Rapture”

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Doug Bennett

May 20, 2011

Language Log helps us understand how we came to use the word “rapture” in English to mean the transport of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ.

About Doug Bennett

Doug Bennett is Emeritus President and Professor of Politics at Earlham College. He has a wife, Ellen, and two sons, Tommy (born 1984) and Robbie (born 2003).
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