The Left Behind novels are some of the best-selling evangelical books in the world. In Rapture Fiction, Crawford Gribben retains the enthusiasm that rapture novels have for the return of Christ while critically examining the theology found in them. He argues that such books have emerged from an evangelicalism that shows signs of decay in its understanding of the gospel, the church, and the Christian life. Rapture novels are theologically inadequate but massively popular, evidence that evangelicalism is now, as the author suggests, in serious crisis.