Left Behind and the Evangelical Imagination
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This volume gathers essays by new and established critics of the series ‘Left Behind’ to interrogate the series’ significance and its cultural and commercial success, and includes, for the first time, a response to these criticisms written on behalf of one of the series’ authors.
Left Behind — twelve novels that dramatize one evangelical perspective on the end of the world — is now established as the best-selling fictional series in American literary history. But it has been met with a range of critical receptions. This volume gathers essays by new and established critics of the series to interrogate the series’ significance and its cultural and commercial success, and includes, for the first time, a response to these criticisms written on behalf of one of the series’ authors.
Mark S. Sweetnam considers the challenge that the organically theological nature of Left Behind has posed for cultural scholars. Amy Frykholm situates the novels’ discussion of gender within wider traditions of sentimental and domestic fiction. Jennie Chapman nuances the general assumption that the series’ conspiracy plots have been poached from secular accounts of subversion that emerged from the radical Right. Crawford Gribben contextualizes the treatment of Jews and Muslims in the rapture fiction tradition. Jarlath Killeen identifies a profoundly ambiguous attitude to Catholicism in the novels, accounted for by the emergence of lobbying and campaigning alliances between evangelicals and Catholics on a range of social issues. John Walliss outlines the manner in which rapture films speak to an evangelical audience, and addresses the failure of these films to gain significant crossover appeal. Katie Sturm interrogates the series’ ecumenical reflections. Marisa Ronan traces the role of Christian fiction in the shaping of evangelical identity. Thomas Ice addresses the theological background of the novels. Writing on behalf of Jerry B. Jenkins, Kevin Zuber responds to the criticisms provided by the volume’s contributors.
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table of contents | Mark S. Sweetnam Introduction Amy Frykholm Rapture Fiction and the Predicament of Christian Male Leadership Jennie Chapman Dispensationalism, Conspiracy Theories, and Left Behind Crawford Gribben Left Behind, Prophecy Fiction and the Clash of Civilizations Jarlath Killeen Tim LaHaye, Left Behind and the Catholic Church John Wallis Evangelical End-times Films: From 1941 to the Present Katie Sturm Literalism and Exclusivity in Left Behind Marisa Ronan Left Behind and Evangelical Literary Culture Thomas Ice Left Behind and the Dispensational Tradition Kevin D. Zuber for Jerry B. Jenkins Response: Left Behind and the Evangelical Worldview |
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