Theology of conversion?

David Field  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Sep 2006
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RAPTURE FICTION AND THE EVANGELICAL CRISIS
By Crawford Gribben
Evangelical Press. 144 pages. £7.95
ISBN 0 85234 610 5

To write (or read) a whole book on ‘rapture fiction’ strikes me as a little odd. If, however, you were thinking of writing one, then find something else to do because Crawford Gribben has done a perfectly good job already.

And if you are thinking of reading one then you need go no further than Rapture Fiction. Dr. Gribben is an accomplished scholar and has produced an accurate, careful, insightful, intelligent, well-documented, mature, balanced, gracious, calm, and well-reasoned book.

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