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Thursday, August 04, 2005 Left Behind Went to Gary's church (Holy Trinity, Doncaster) last night for the second of 3 talks on "end times". It was by Evonne Paddison warden of Ridley College and she started by giving us a lengthy summary of the "Left Behind" saga told in 12 books, with prequels and sequels as well. And some satirical spawns like the one pictured here! At first it was a bit hard to tell where Evonne was coming from, whether she was an agent for the books or not. It turned out we think that Evonne's theology is very different from that of authors Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, who were described as "pre-mill, post-trib" and espousing "popular dispensationalism" which didn't seem to fit with Evonne's theology, which could perhaps be described as "A-millenialism" but we're not absolutely sure (because towards the end Evonne had left me a fair way behind, actually). Evonne did give us much food for thought, as did Gary afterwards (he was in fine form actually, stating all that he doesn't believe in including the beast!). For instance, one purpose of Revelation is to show the sovereignty of God and that the victory is already won (and that it's full of OT illusions - rich symbolism such as colours, numbers, precious stones etc, all standing for something but not necessarily to be taken literally). We'll give the last word to Evonne: "The Left Behind books miss the point that Christ already has the victory!" There's a useful summary of dispensationalism in the Wikipedia, and an interesting lecture on dispensationalism, eschatology and the rapture (aligned with Evonne's theology, I think) on the web. One alarming aspect of all this is the degree to which dispensationalism and the Left Behind books have influenced US foreign policy (does George Bush really send himself to sleep at night, reading the Left Behind series and trying to find himself in them??). As we walked away from Holy Trinity with much to ponder, we noticed that Gary was left behind, still back in the church. And putting a CD in as we drove off this morning, by pure serendipity it was "All That You Can't Leave Behind" by U2 (great album, actually)! # posted by geoff @ 12:06 pm 0 comments
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