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Communicating the wholly other in Christian popular fiction: Rhetorical effects of post-Enlightenment concepts of God (Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins, Walker Percy, Rudolf Otto).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Communicating the wholly other in Christian popular fiction: Rhetorical effects of post-Enlightenment concepts of God (Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins, Walker Percy, Rudolf Otto)./
Author:	Torres, Michael A.
Description:	273 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-11, Section: A, page: 4183.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-11A.
Subject:	Language, Rhetoric and Composition. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3153711
ISBN:	0496139312

Communicating the wholly other in Christian popular fiction: Rhetorical effects of post-Enlightenment concepts of God (Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins, Walker Percy, Rudolf Otto).
Torres, Michael A.

Communicating the wholly other in Christian popular fiction: Rhetorical effects of post-Enlightenment concepts of God (Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins, Walker Percy, Rudolf Otto). - 273 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-11, Section: A, page: 4183.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Regent University, 2005.

A certain strain of contemporary evangelical fiction epitomized by Tim LaHaye's and Jerry Jenkins' Left Behind series is widely popular. This dissertation concerns itself with the religious, rhetorical communication of such novels. It considers the underlying influence of Enlightenment thinking that informed early American Protestantism, which in turn influenced American novelists. It traces the roots of the underlying ideas of God that inform contemporary popular American Evangelical fiction such as Left Behind. It also looks at another model of contemporary fiction, namely Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins, that communicates the notion of God in terms of ineffability, mystery and awe. Supporting the premise that Enlightenment's influence on American Protestantism rendered God propositionally and scientifically, this dissertation traces those American novelists that have apparently influenced LaHaye and Jenkins, and also those that have had an impact on Walker. It identifies salient concepts, namely Rudolf Otto's mysterium, tremendum, and fascinans, as being relatively faithful characteristics of the Judeo-Christian God, informed by pre-Enlightenment thought. The study examines the occurrence or lack thereof of these concepts in fictional elements (character, plot, setting, etc.) in both Left Behind and Love in the Ruins as criteria to judge whether or not particular works of fiction communicate a more faithful representation of the Judeo-Christian God. Effectually, the thesis of this dissertation is that works such as Left Behind in their literal interpretation of Biblical prophecy communicate a concept of God that is systematic, propositional, and ultimately depersonalizing both humankind and God.

ISBN: 0496139312Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019205
Language, Rhetoric and Composition.

Communicating the wholly other in Christian popular fiction: Rhetorical effects of post-Enlightenment concepts of God (Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins, Walker Percy, Rudolf Otto).
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