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Tilly
“Written in 1986, Frank E. Peretti’s novelette Tilly may feel melodramatic to today’s readers, but remains a tearful tale of brokenness and redemption.”
—Lorehaven on Jun 24, 2022

The Wonderland Trials
“Although indebted to a classic, The Wonderland Trials is inventive and colorful in its own right, abundantly able to charm and to intrigue.”
—Lorehaven on Jun 24, 2022

Rise of the Earthborn
“Societal intrigue plus steampunk flair and a dash of romance help make Emma Buenen’s Rise of the Earthborn a solid extra-biblical adventure.”
—Lorehaven on Jun 17, 2022

Elite
“Elite explores parallels to the early Church, beautifully intertwining faith and action in this high-stakes post-apocalyptic adventure.”
—Lorehaven on Jun 10, 2022

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New Book ‘Reading Evangelicals’ Will Focus on Famous Christian Fiction

“Reading Evangelicals ultimately makes the case that the worlds created in these novels reflected and shaped the world evangelicals saw themselves living in.”
E. Stephen Burnett on Jan 27, 2021 · No comments

This fall, a hardcover nonfiction book Reading Evangelicals will explore five famous Christian novels. Christianity Today news editor Daniel Silliman revealed the book cover and description on Jan. 25:

In personal news, my history of evangelical fiction now has a cover and a publication date with @eerdmansbooks https://t.co/HgTkeqG0UE pic.twitter.com/SrW8zvXMGF

— Daniel Silliman (@danielsilliman) January 25, 2021

This Present Darkness (1986), Frank E. PerettiReading Evangelicals will survey bestselling Christian-made fiction, focusing on these titles:

  1. Love Comes Softly
  2. This Present Darkness
  3. Left Behind
  4. The Shunning
  5. The Shack

Of those titles, three are considered fantastical in genre: contemporary supernatural thriller This Present Darkness, end-times thriller Left Behind, and supernatural-fiction-meets-sermon The Shack.

Eerdmans, which is publishing Reading Evangelicals, intros the book this way:

The Shack cover

Who are evangelicals? And what is evangelicalism? Those attempting to answer these questions usually speak in terms of political and theological stances. But those stances emerge from an evangelical world with its own institutions—institutions that shape imagination as much as they shape ideology.

In this unique exploration of evangelical subculture, Daniel Silliman shows readers how Christian fiction, and the empire of Christian publishing and bookselling it helped build, is key to understanding the formation of evangelical identity. . . .

Reading Evangelicals ultimately makes the case that the worlds created in these novels reflected and shaped the world evangelicals saw themselves living in—one in which romantic love intertwines with divine love, in which humans play an active role in the cosmic contest between the divine and the demonic, and in which the material world is infused with the literal workings of God and Satan. Silliman tells the story of how the Christian publishing industry marketed these ideas as much as they marketed books, and how, during the era of the Christian bookstore, this—every bit as much as politics or theology—became a locus of evangelical identity.

Read more at the Eerdmans book listing for Reading Evangelicals, releasing Oct. 5, 2021.

E. Stephen Burnett
E. Stephen Burnett creates sci-fi and fantasy novels as well as nonfiction, exploring fantastical stories for God’s glory as publisher of Lorehaven.com and cohost of the Fantastical Truth podcast. As the oldest of six, he enjoys connecting with his homeschool roots by speaking at conferences for Christian families and creators. Stephen is coauthor of The Pop Culture Parent: Helping Kids Engage Their World for Christ from New Growth Press (2020, with Ted Turnau and Dr. Jared Moore). Stephen and his wife, Lacy, live in the Austin area, where they help with foster parenting and serve as members of Southern Hills Baptist Church.
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