Vilifying the Enemy: The Christian Right and the Novels of Frank Peretti

Jay R. Howard

Vilifying the Enemy: The Christian Right and the Novels of Frank Peretti

Jay R. Howard

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

Peretti's novels provide a clear statement of the worldview of conservative Christians who hold the Bible to be literally true and without error. Not only is the reader presented with doctrinal positions, but the implications of those positions for life in modern society are spelled out as well. In this essay, I analyze Peretti's views of the modern world, its heroes and villains, and argue they are representative of the views of the New Christian Right (Liebman and Wuthnow) in the late 1980s and the 1990s.

Original language	American English
Journal	Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Volume	28
Issue number	3
State	Published - Jan 1 1994

Keywords

Christian Fiction
Evangelism
Frank Peretti
New Christian Right

Disciplines

Literature in English, North America
Sociology
Sociology of Culture

Access to Document

Vilifying the Enemy The Christian Right and the Novels of FrankFinal published version, 392 KBLicense: Unspecified

Cite this

@article{898b4a915f2342efa5c60269c20f6fea,

title = "Vilifying the Enemy: The Christian Right and the Novels of Frank Peretti",

abstract = " Peretti's novels provide a clear statement of the worldview of conservative Christians who hold the Bible to be literally true and without error. Not only is the reader presented with doctrinal positions, but the implications of those positions for life in modern society are spelled out as well. In this essay, I analyze Peretti's views of the modern world, its heroes and villains, and argue they are representative of the views of the New Christian Right (Liebman and Wuthnow) in the late 1980s and the 1990s.",

keywords = "Christian Fiction, Evangelism, Frank Peretti, New Christian Right",

author = "Howard, \{Jay R.\}",

note = "Howard, Jay R. 1994. “Vilifying the Enemy: The Christian Right and the Novels of Frank Peretti.” Journal of Popular Culture 28(3):193-206. Available from: digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch\_papers/594/",

year = "1994",

month = jan,

day = "1",

language = "American English",

volume = "28",

journal = "Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS",

number = "3",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Vilifying the Enemy: The Christian Right and the Novels of Frank Peretti

AU - Howard, Jay R.

N1 - Howard, Jay R. 1994. “Vilifying the Enemy: The Christian Right and the Novels of Frank Peretti.” Journal of Popular Culture 28(3):193-206. Available from: digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch_papers/594/

PY - 1994/1/1

Y1 - 1994/1/1

N2 - Peretti's novels provide a clear statement of the worldview of conservative Christians who hold the Bible to be literally true and without error. Not only is the reader presented with doctrinal positions, but the implications of those positions for life in modern society are spelled out as well. In this essay, I analyze Peretti's views of the modern world, its heroes and villains, and argue they are representative of the views of the New Christian Right (Liebman and Wuthnow) in the late 1980s and the 1990s.

AB - Peretti's novels provide a clear statement of the worldview of conservative Christians who hold the Bible to be literally true and without error. Not only is the reader presented with doctrinal positions, but the implications of those positions for life in modern society are spelled out as well. In this essay, I analyze Peretti's views of the modern world, its heroes and villains, and argue they are representative of the views of the New Christian Right (Liebman and Wuthnow) in the late 1980s and the 1990s.

KW - Christian Fiction

KW - Evangelism

KW - Frank Peretti

KW - New Christian Right

UR - https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch_papers/594

M3 - Article

VL - 28

JO - Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

JF - Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

IS - 3

ER -

Vilifying the Enemy: The Christian Right and the Novels of Frank Peretti

Abstract

Keywords

Disciplines

Access to Document

Other files and links

Cite this