![]() ![]() ![]() Thank you for supporting our publishing ministry. To keep reading, subscribe-subscriptions begin at $4.95-or log in. This article is available to Christian Century magazine subscribers only. My sense of self, justice and holiness would be shattered if certain outspoken fundamentalists left me behind. If the Rapture were to occur in a fashion similar to what premillennial dispensationalists anticipate, my theology would be rocked by God intervening in the world in such an unquestionably supernatural way. Muslims and Buddhists were gone alongside Christians gays, lesbians, and adulterers joined the ranks of what seemed unlikely to them to be a heavenly throng.” The Christians can’t help but notice “the diversity of the disappeared. The Leftovers Audible Audiobook Unabridged Tom Perrotta (Author), Dennis Boutsikaris (Narrator), & 1 more 1,572 ratings Editors pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Residents of Mapleton, the Everytown, USA, suburb where the book takes place, disagree about whether the event was the biblical Rapture or something else. One day, millions of people were just gone- poof. The novel opens with a retrospective description of the “Sudden Departure,” which happened a year or so before the prologue. What if the Rapture really happened? This is the question Tom Perrotta takes up in his novel The Leftovers. ![]()
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