There's a fair bit of science fiction imagining future incarnations of Catholicism, Mormonism, Islam, and Judaism (not to mention imagined religions). But, unless I'm missing something, not much Protestant futurism. I wonder why that is.
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So if we're speculating about evangelicalism in the year 3000, & we're still in the material world, we're speculating about a doomsday cult (not in pejorative sense, but theologically) that's lingering, for some reason, despite its doomsday predictions just never panning out.
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Wouldn’t that make the left behind series Evangelical Protestant futurism?
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Yep, I agree with
@pothen here. Particularly with people who don’t even believe in evolution - hard to imagine a radically different future when you don’t acknowledge the fullness of the pastThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Sounds about right. Though there is some, such as https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Night-Lamb-among-Stars-ebook/dp/B004KA9UWK/ … Please note this series also turns out to be eschatological, but it is set far in the future.
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My bookshelves as a fundamentalist Protestant pre-teen were filled with dystopic science fiction usually set around the (still 10-30 years away) early 20th century. Government--in alliance w/ antichrist--would use futuristic tech to find and punish Christians.
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Yeah, it seems like Protestant imagination is short term and apocalyptic & can't imagine far future that one sees elsewhere, as in Herbert or Wolfe
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