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Writing the Rapture

Name: Writing the Rapture
Price: 56.6 GBP
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Author: Crawford Gribben
ISBN: 9780195326604

Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America

by Crawford Gribben

Hardback
272 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
15.6 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

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For readers interested in Christian fiction and prophecy

Uncovers the roots of the rapture-novel genre

You will gain insights into evangelical beliefs and trends

This book explores the history and impact of rapture fiction in evangelical culture.

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In this book, Crawford Gribben offers the only full-length history, description, and analysis of the rapture-novel genre. The late 1980s, which saw a renaissance of the evangelical imagination, culminated in the creation of the Left Behind series, co-authored by Tim La Haye and Jerry B. Jenkins. The novels in this series, Gribben shows, are astonishingly derivative - borrowing entire characters and significant incidents from earlier books. Analyzing the unexpected publishing success of the Left Behind novels, he characterizes the series as a barometer of evangelical popular opinion.