The left behind fantasy : the theology behind the Left Behind tales
(2010)

Nonfiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2010
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781498272254 (electronic bk.) MWT12321783, 1498272258 (electronic bk.) 12321783
LANGUAGE
English
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The popular Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins has sold more than 62 million copies since the first volume appeared in 1995. Jerry Falwell pronounced it the most important series of books in the history of modern Christianity. Many readers have assumed it gives the true facts about the way the world will end and what will happen to all the people in it. But according to real biblical scholarship, this series is seriously flawed. Based on a misreading of many scriptures, including Daniel and the Book of Revelation, it has fed a kind of hysteria in the Christian populace that has led many people to reorder their existence in expectation of an impending doom and the sudden, unexpected return of Jesus. In this book, William Powell Tuck carefully and authoritatively refutes the premises and faulty theology of the Left Behind books, critiquing them in the light of genuine biblical scholarship and common sense

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