Marks of the beast: The left behind novels and the struggle for evangelical identity

Marks of the Beast: The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-272

  Shuck, Glenn ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

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