Marks of the Beast: The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical IdentityNYU Press, 2004 M12 1 - 273 páginas The Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins has become a popular culture phenomenon, selling an astonishing 40 million copies to date. These novels, written by two well-known evangelical Christians, depict the experiences of those "left behind" in the aftermath of the Rapture, when Christ removes true believers, leaving everyone else to suffer seven years of Tribulation under Satan's proxy, Antichrist. |
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The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity Glenn W. Shuck. Preface. About. American. Evangelicals. Before moving into the substance of the book ... prophecy believers, most of whom are evangelicals—at least in the ...
The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity Glenn W ... Prophecy belief is indeed what historian Paul S. Boyer calls “a theology of ... read “conservative dispensational premillennial pretribulational American ...
... book explores contemporary evangelical prophecy fiction, especially the best-selling Left Behind novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.3 Left Behind represents the most prominent example of this increasingly popular literary genre ...
... novels. Left Behind, after all, describes the End, yet the End takes its ... Prophecy believers may dream of their heavenly “pie in the sky, by and by ... prophecy-believing evangelicals remain hesitant to leave the world behind.9 Despite ...
The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity Glenn W. Shuck. Christian Smith suggests, prophecy writers may even manufacture their images of evil, because an identified adversary provides prophecy believers with a ...
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3 The Emergence of the Network CultureBeast System | 82 |
4 Technologies of Transcendence | 112 |
5 Marks of the Beast | 141 |
6 Beast Inc | 167 |
Epilogue | 196 |
Notes | 209 |
Select Bibliography | 249 |
Index | 259 |
About the Author | 273 |
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Marks of the Beast: The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical ... Glenn W. Shuck Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
Marks of the Beast: The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical ... Glenn W. Shuck Vista previa limitada - 2005 |