What Is Christian Postmodernism?

Authors

  • Christopher Douglas University of Victoria

Abstract

Christian Postmodernism is a rhetorical strategy of fundamentalist apologetics. It seeks to level the playing field of expert knowledge by developing institutions and networks of counter-expertise to produce uncertainty in fields such as evolution, Bible criticism, climate change, sex education, and others. This article analyzes a literary example of Christian Postmodernism, Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins’ famous Left Behind series, where characters must learn to read the Bible as fundamentalists do, for its ‘plain sense’ mapping of the End Times. Christian Postmodernism characterizes the epistemic crisis among U.S. conservatives today and was crucial to the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

Author Biography

  • Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria

    Christopher Douglas is the author of If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right and is a professor of English at the University of Victoria. As well as his public-facing scholarship on religion, politics and literature, his current book project is on Christian Right literature, theodicy, and the historical-critical method.

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Published

2026-05-04

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 1 (2019): Religion and Secularism

Section

Main Section

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Douglas, C. (2026). What Is Christian Postmodernism?. FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies, 32(1), 29-47. https://platform.openjournals.nl/FRAME/article/view/27283