“Our answer is shaped in part by our eschatology.”
That is correct. While the word “Rapture” is never used in the Bible and the theory itself didn’t come into being until the late 1800s, it is still right there in scripture.
“Its formulation came about by means of inductive reasoning. Certain biblical passages concerning the Second Coming, and the role Christians will play in that event, were blended together inductively to establish the teaching.”
So why didn’t Christians in previous generations come up with it?