by James L. Evans | Aug 11, 2006 | Opinion
Let’s define success. The Left Behind series, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins has now sold over 60 million copies. There are 11 sequels to the original novel, and three prequels. The series has also spawned a children’s series with nearly 40...
by Bob Allen | Aug 2, 2006 | News
Many Bible-believing Christians worried “The DaVinci Code” would blur the line between fiction and what the Bible says about the life of Jesus. But a new book says millions of evangelicals are buying a marginal and fairly recent theology behind the...
by LeAnn Snow Flesher | Jul 17, 2006 | Opinion
One pastor’s story can offer some insights on the popularity of this fiction series. Jason Byassee writes in his article “Enraptured: What’s Behind ‘Left Behind’?” that he had never met anyone who believed in the rapture–not...
by Britt Towery | Sep 20, 2004 | Opinion
A fellow browser in a bookstore a few months ago asked me about the “Left Behind” novels that have set record sales in religious and secular bookstores the past few years. I don’t know where the fellow was coming from, but he was evidently disturbed...
by Richard Wilson | Mar 28, 2003 | Opinion
Once the lens of dispensational theology is ground and polished, then all of history is seen through that lens. Scripture is reorganized and read exclusively through a dispensational view of history. Such beliefs are directly related to dispensationalism, an...
