Conservative Christian "dragon fiction" was a phrase coined by critic Vince Passaro in Harpers Magazine (September 1996), which was used to describe evangelical or fundamentalist Christian fantasy or apocalyptic fiction, as well as political thrillers. Passaro identified several subgenres in this review article.

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  • Conservative Christian "dragon fiction" was a phrase coined by critic Vince Passaro in Harpers Magazine (September 1996), which was used to describe evangelical or fundamentalist Christian fantasy or apocalyptic fiction, as well as political thrillers. Passaro identified several subgenres in this review article. He titled the article "dragon fiction" in an apparent reference to Frank Peretti's work The Oath (Peretti), an evangelical fantasy novel in which small-town protagonists must pit themselves against a literal dragon, as an embodiment of satanic power and strength. More often, however, the evangelical or fundamentalist protagonists in the featured books find themselves pitted against more mundane political institutions within the United States, which are usually engaged in public policy formulation that is viewed as against the political and ethical frameworks of conservative Christian deontology, such as legislative initiatives that would liberalise stem cell research or embryo experimentation. This segues into apocalyptic fiction, a well-established popular fundamentalist Christian literary genre.
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  • Conservative Christian "dragon fiction" was a phrase coined by critic Vince Passaro in Harpers Magazine (September 1996), which was used to describe evangelical or fundamentalist Christian fantasy or apocalyptic fiction, as well as political thrillers. Passaro identified several subgenres in this review article.
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  • Conservative Christian Dragon fiction
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