The Young Person's Guide to the Apocalypse: Left Behind for Kids
The Left Behind series, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins's novels about the end of the world as posited by a variety of evangelical Christianity called premillennial dispensationalism, remains the most popular of all Rapture fiction, but it has been criticized for shortfalls in its theology, eth...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2019]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 115-126 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jenkins, Jerry B. 1949-, Left behind - the kids
/ Evangelical movement
/ End of the world
/ Unbeliever
/ Gender-specific role
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RelBib Classification: | KDG Free church NBQ Eschatology RF Christian education; catechetics |
Further subjects: | B
evangelical fiction
B children's fiction B American evangelical Christianity B Premillennial Dispensationalism B Apocalypse B Rapture fiction B Eschatology |
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Summary: | The Left Behind series, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins's novels about the end of the world as posited by a variety of evangelical Christianity called premillennial dispensationalism, remains the most popular of all Rapture fiction, but it has been criticized for shortfalls in its theology, ethics, world building, and literary quality. The Left Behind: The Kids series, published between 1998 and 2004, was a spinoff of the apocalyptic evangelical Christian Left Behind series aimed at younger readers. This article argues that author Chris Fabry uses the books to challenge, complicate, and resist aspects of the original series and to mitigate some of the criticisms levelled against it, particularly with regard to the treatment of non-believers, the value of community, and the role of Christian women. |
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ISSN: | 1703-289X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.2017-0045 |