I have written this book for the world, but its immediate audience is America, especially religious America and the church in America, and particularly the American evangelical Christian church. It is about globalization and how it is bringing about an end of history that no one in the early 1990s could imagine. It is not so much about the clash of civilizations as it is about a “clash of revelations”—an expression that will become less opaque as the book progresses—and what that means for this unique