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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.
These minutes record the business conducted at the regular meetings
of the Presbyterian ministers and elders who formed the leadership
of the predominantly Ulser-Scots community in Antrim. They provide
unparalleled insight into the concerns and pressures that helped to
shape the identity and inform the practice of the communtity.
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