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Left Behind and Loving It (Paperback)
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Left Behind and Loving It (Paperback)
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Description: Left Behind and Loving It is a cheeky critique of
popular writings about the end times. Rather than presenting a
steroid-buffed Jesus wrapped in an American flag and ""coming again
in clouds of gunfire,"" Left Behind and Loving It invites readers
to approach some of the most controversial and scary portions of
the Scriptures with the utter confidence that ""God's steadfast
love endures forever."" Rather than asserting a hope premised on a
few chosen ones escaping the world, Left Behind and Loving It
argues that if it is Jesus who is to return (and not his evil
twin), then the second coming has redemption written all over it.
Many today cannot accept the escapist, violent, end-of-the-world
scenario envisioned by ""Left Behind"" theology. Left Behind and
Loving It invites readers not to fear but to trust in God's
steadfast love and look at the finitude of the world with hope in
an infinitely loving God. Endorsements: ""Rapture theology has
become a great chuffing beast, feeding on fear, imperial
aspirations, and our growing sense of alienation from God's good
creation. Mark Davis aims a few well-chosen arrows at the beast,
and lo, the rapture business turns out to be nothing more than a
lot of hot air. This book points us toward our home on this earth,
where God, whose steadfast love endures forever, dwells with us.""
-Stanley P Saunders Columbia Theological Seminary ""In this book
filled with wit and great wisdom, Mark Davis takes on the Left
Behind series and exposes it for what it is: fearmongering nonsense
that makes a travesty of the gospel. Davis provides a way of
reading the Bible that is historically sensitive and theologically
acute. And as he ably demonstrates, a faithful reading of Scripture
has its own share of surprises I highly recommend this book to
anyone who is concerned, or confused, about the apocalypse.""
-William P. Brown Columbia Theological Seminary ""Does the subtitle
of D. Mark Davis' book imply that his analysis is imprudent?
Absolutely not. Judiciously, he delineates in lucid prose diverse
strategies fostering a faithful, non-literal reading of 'scary'
apocalyptic biblical texts. Ably demonstrating that such
multilayered texts are flattened when practitioners of 'Left Behind
Theology' view them through the lens of 'homotextuality, ' Davis
engages in a 'heterotextual' reading susceptible to the
extraordinary power of poetic speech. Rather than yielding ominous
predictive truth, such image-filled disclosures in Davis'
investigation attest God's enduring love."" -J. Kenneth Kuntz The
University of Iowa About the Contributor(s): D. Mark Davis is the
pastor of Heartland Presbyterian Church in Clive, Iowa. He is the
author of Talking about Evangelism (2007).
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