Rapture Fiction: And the Evangelical Crisis

by Gribben Crawford

Book by Gribben Crawford

Paperback

First published July 1, 2006

Reviews

[Ian Major · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is NOT an attack on Dispensationalism. It does give valuable new information on the origins of secret-rapture teaching, but its goal is to examine the nature of the immensely popular rapture fiction novels. It is these latter that threaten to move their readers away from the gospel held by ALL Christians, whether Pre or Post Tribulation in their views.

It has been said the ordinary Christian in the pew gets most of their theology from their hymn-book; I think even those days are gone. Novels can provide an easy-to-digest theological course for those who would find theological books hard going. I've read some good ones myself. But it is equally open to disseminating serious - even fatal - errors.

If you know anyone who is into such novels as the Left Behind series, then you really ought to read this.

[Nathan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very good little book. Surprisingly charitable within the spectrum of eschatological systems represented in evangelical churches. Moderate in tone. Though Calvinist in persuasion, the author does a good job analyzing the books from an historically evangelical perspective rather than a specifically Calvinistic perspective. That was a blessing to a more classical and reformed Arminian reader like me. I sincerely appreciated his exposition on the importance, even urgency, of faith in and expectation of the second coming.