![]() ![]() Still, his books strongly shaped evangelical views of Jesus' Second Coming and popularized the ideas to the broader public. Some fellow conservative Christians pushed back against LaHaye's end-times views, known as premillennial dispensationalism, emphasizing that the books were fictional and should not be read as an exact theological interpretation of the Bible. After 1981, he devoted himself to writing, promoting his view of Bible prophecy, family life seminars and political activism. He earned a midcareer doctorate at Western Seminary in Portland, Ore., and joined the Southern Baptist Convention.Īfter leading churches in South Carolina and Minnesota, he moved to Southern California, and for a quarter-century led a thriving congregation that eventually became Shadow Mountain Community Church. He was also a prolific nonfiction writer, writing more than 60 additional books, including the Christian sex manual The Act of Marriage and The Battle for the Mind, whose denunciations of secularism helped rouse the religious right.īorn in 1926, LaHaye had a hardscrabble upbringing in Detroit, served in the Air Force at the end of World War II and graduated from Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., where he met his wife. (Shane Bevel/The Shreveport Times via AP) Jenkins sign copies of their newest book Glorious Appearing. ![]() ![]() In an Apfile photo, co-authors Tim Lahaye, left, and Jerry B. ![]()
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