{"id":15577,"date":"2013-05-27T18:28:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T22:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=15577"},"modified":"2013-05-27T18:28:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T22:28:53","slug":"popular-theology-is-popular-culture-and-vice-versa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2013\/05\/27\/popular-theology-is-popular-culture-and-vice-versa\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular theology is popular culture and vice versa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Matthew Paul Turner<\/a> and vorjack<\/a> both direct our attention to the trailer for the upcoming comedy Rapture-Palooza<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\nThis makes me happy for several reasons, among them:<\/p>\n1. John Francis Daley was pretty terrific in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0193676\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Freaks and Geeks<\/em><\/a> \u2014 honest, vulnerable, genuine \u2014 and it\u2019s nice to see him getting a shot at the kind of post-F&G<\/em> success that folks like Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Jason Segal and James Franco have enjoyed.<\/p>\n2. The cast includes Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Anna Kendrick, Ana Gasteyer, Thomas Lennon, and a host of other very funny people.<\/p>\n3. It\u2019s a spoof of premillennial dispensationalist \u201cBible prophecy\u201d nonsense \u2014 a horrifying, incoherent, anti-biblical body of folklore ripe for satiric skewering.<\/p>\nBut I\u2019m also dreading the downside of this movie, because here\u2019s the problem: This movie \u2014 this low-budget, slap-dash summer comedy \u2014 will influence, reshape and add to Christian theology.<\/p>\nThat seems like an audacious claim to make about what appears to be a very modest B-movie. Based on little more than that trailer above, my guess is that Rapture-Palooza<\/em> will disappear from theaters after a few modestly successful weeks, and then enjoy a similarly modest DVD release before settling into a long after-life on Netflix and late-night showings on basic cable. It looks like it may be the kind of flawed-but-memorable flick that includes just enough big laughs and quotable lines to live on \u2014 much like screenwriter Chris Matheson\u2019s first success, Bill and Ted\u2019s Excellent Adventure.<\/em> My guess is that it will enter the culture in the same minor way as movies like PCU<\/em> or Back to School <\/em>or Big Trouble in Little China<\/em> or Better Off Dead.<\/em> We may not think of these as good movies, or as favorites, but somehow we wind up watching them repeatedly, in whole or in part. And if someone says \u201cI want my two dollars!\u201d or \u201cTriple Lindy,\u201d then most of us know what they\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2013\/05\/TheOmen.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15578\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2013\/05\/TheOmen-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"><\/a>But Rapture-Palooza<\/em> stands to be more influential than Bill and Ted<\/em> or those other little movies because it\u2019s about<\/em> folklore. And stories about folklore tend to merge with and to reshape that folklore. This has always been especially true of the branch of folklore that constitutes popular theology.<\/p>\nAnd that means that scenes from this B-movie \u2014 inventions dreamed up by Matheson, ad-libs by Daley or Kendrick or Robinson \u2014 will eventually take on the status of holy writ, of scripture. Jokes written for Rapture-Palooza<\/em> will, a generation from now, have been absorbed into the folklore of premillennial dispensationalist \u201cBible-prophecy scholarship.\u201d The punchlines will be left behind, but the set-ups and the incidental details of those jokes will be invoked and alluded to as though they were written by John of Patmos. They will become canonical ideas repeated at hundreds of \u201cBible-prophecy\u201d conferences and seminars and cited in \u201cBible-prophecy\u201d books. Students at Dallas Theological Seminary will be tested<\/em> on them.<\/p>\nWe can\u2019t know yet which<\/em> scenes \u2014 which jokes, ideas, inventions, visual details, plot points, etc. \u2014 will eventually be incorporated into the canonical PMD mythology. But some of them will be. They will be absorbed into the existing body of what \u201ceverybody knows\u201d that \u201cthe Bible teaches\u201d about the End of the World. The preachers citing and reciting these details will have long forgotten, or never known, that these details were originally invented for a B-movie comedy. They will simply assert, with utter confidence, that everything they are saying is \u201cbased on a literal reading of the book of Revelation\u201d \u2014 an assertion that will be accepted, and repeated without question or qualification, in countless media reports.<\/p>\nThis is the way the weird, heterodox pop-theology of premillennial dispensationalism has always evolved over the years. It grows and spreads and changes in the same way that any urban legend does in the telling and retelling. Each new \u201cscholar\u201d or preacher or author adds their own embellishments. They insert new details, abandoning or altering others that didn\u2019t get a strong reaction, changing others to try to keep pace with a changing world.<\/p>\nAnd all along that process is being shaped and reshaped by outsiders \u2014 by storytellers and jesters, and even by skeptical would-be \u201cdebunkers\u201d \u2014 who find in this pop-theology the raw material for their own stories. The pop-theology enters the pop-culture, and then the pop-culture reworking of it re-enters the pop-theology without any acknowledgement of where these changes came from.<\/p>\nThink of the relationship between Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye. Both men are fundamentalist Christians who found surprising success as the authors of run-away best-sellers popularizing the pop-theology of premillennial dispensational End Times Rapture-mania. Lindsey\u2019s The Late Great Planet Earth,<\/em> published in 1970, became the best-selling nonfiction book of that decade. LaHaye\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/tag\/left-behind\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Left Behind series<\/a> have been some of the best-selling fiction titles of the 1990s and early 2000s. LaHaye didn\u2019t want to seem<\/em> like he was borrowing from Lindsey. Like everyone in the \u201cBible prophecy\u201d racket, he sought to carve out his own market niche by differentiating his End Times scheme from previous popular versions. And yet LaHaye\u2019s books are steeped in second-generation versions of ideas earlier taught by Lindsey. These weren\u2019t taken directly from Lindsey\u2019s books, but were absorbed into LaHaye\u2019s scheme from the popular culture that followed Lindsey\u2019s best-sellers.<\/p>\nConsider LaHaye\u2019s portrayal of the \u201cAntichrist,\u201d Nicolae Carpathia. You can\u2019t get to Nicolae without first going through Damien Thorn \u2014 the villain of Richard Donner\u2019s 1976 horror classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075005\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Omen<\/a>,<\/em> and of its numerous sequels and remakes and imitations. And you can\u2019t have The Omen<\/em> without first having Hal Lindsey.<\/p>\nThose participating in this folkloric cycle between pop-theology and pop-culture don\u2019t seem wholly aware of the cycle\u2019s existence. LaHaye would insist that Nicolae Carpathia has nothing to do with The Omen,<\/em> but that he is based exclusively on a \u201cliteral reading of the book of Revelation.\u201d Screenwriter David Seltzer, likewise, said he was inspired by the Bible, and not by the Bible as refracted by Hal Lindsey\u2019s psychedelic reworking of Scofield\u2019s footnotes.<\/p>\nAnd they\u2019re not lying. It\u2019s quite possible that Tim LaHaye has never even seen The Omen<\/em> or that Seltzer never read The Late Great Planet Earth<\/em>. \u00a0They may be wholly, or mostly, unaware that the \u201cBible\u201d they\u2019re invoking is really some abstract, reinvented reinterpretation filtered through countless iterations of the pop-theology, pop-culture cycling and recycling.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s similar to how the current \u201corthodox\u201d doctrine of Hell \u2014 a vast collection of stuff \u201ceveryone knows\u201d that \u201cthe Bible teaches\u201d \u2014 came to evolve over many centuries. It\u2019s quite possible that Dante had never read the Gospel of Nicodemas<\/em> and that he genuinely believed that his notions of Hell came from the Bible itself rather than from the folklore developed over centuries of embellished iterations and reiterations of that fourth-century pop-culture phenomenon. And between Dante and the current bunch of preachers insisting that \u201cthe Bible teaches\u201d a doctrine of Hell we have centuries of this cycle repeating itself over and over again.<\/p>\nDante we know and remember, but over all those intervening years countless other storytellers have come and gone. Their names and their stories are long forgotten, but details from those stories live on. Those details were embedded back into theology as the building blocks of a doctrine of Hell now defended, centuries later, as nothing more than a straightforward product of a \u201cliteral reading of the Bible.\u201d<\/p>\nPopular theology feeds popular culture which in turn feeds popular theology. Cycle. Recycle. Repeat.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consider Tim LaHaye’s portrayal of the “Antichrist,” Nicolae Carpathia. You can’t get to Nicolae without first going through Damien Thorn — the villain of Richard Donner’s 1976 horror classic The Omen, and of its numerous sequels and remakes and imitations. 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A former managing editor of Prism magazine, Fred worked in the parachurch nonprofit world for a decade and then for a decade in the newspaper biz. He began blogging in 2002. In 2003 he began writing a review of the best-selling Left Behind series. Eight years later he still hasn\u2019t finished reviewing the second book of that series and the experience has left him a broken shell of a man. Fred knows the difference between the possessive \u201cits\u201d and the contraction \u201cit\u2019s,\u201d and he is acutely bothered when others mistakenly confuse the two, yet he himself just kind of instinctively types the apostrophe whether or not it belongs there. Some feel this is his greatest hypocrisy, but those who know him better know better. He\u2019s guilty of much greater hypocrisies. Jesus loves Fred far more than Fred loves Jesus, but he at least has the decency to recognize the unfairness of that lopsided relationship and he has long wished that he were better at maybe kind of sort of doing something more to correct that some day. A Baptist, an amateur, a Gen-Xer, a Gemini and a Mets fan, Fred lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage daughters. 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