It is the not-too-distant future, and the rapture has occurred.
Every born-again Christian on the planet has, without prior
warning, been snatched from the earth to meet Christ in the
heavens, while all those without the requisite faith have been left
behind to suffer the wrath of the Antichrist as the earth enters
into its final days.
This is the premise that animates the enormously popular
cultural phenomenon that is the Left Behind series of prophecy
novels, co-written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins and published
between 1995 and 2007. But these books are more than fiction: it is
the sincere belief of many evangelicals that these events actually
will occur--soon. "Plotting Apocalypse" delves into the world of
rapture, prophecy, and tribulation in order to account for the
extraordinary cultural salience of these books and the impact of
the world they project. Through penetrating readings of the novels,
Chapman shows how the series offers a new model of evangelical
agency for its readership. The novels teach that although believers
are incapable of changing the course of a future that has been
preordained by God, they "can" become empowered by learning to read
the prophetic books of the Bible--and the signs of the
times--correctly. Reading and interpretation become key indices of
agency in the world that Left Behind limns.
"Plotting Apocalypse" reveals the significant cultural work that
Left Behind performs in developing a counter-narrative to the
passivity and fatalism that can characterize evangelical prophecy
belief. Chapman's arguments may bear profound implications for the
future of American evangelicalism and its interactions with
culture, society, and politics.
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