Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction: From C. S. Lewis to Left Behind

摘要

The four major words in the title of this work all need some discussion and justification. Encyclopedia: most people expect an encyclopedia to be fairly comprehensive in the coverage of the subject of which it claims to be giving information. Derived from Greek words meaning "all-round education" an encyclopedia should be either broad in scope and give an all-round picture of topics or else narrow in coverage but providing in-depth information, preferably knowledge. Unfortunately, as will be seen below, this publication achieves neither goal satisfactorily.