I doubt that angels have inferiority complexes, but if they do, they should read Frank Peretti’s This Present Darkness, and Piercing the Darkness. Both books give the impression that God is to the universe what Professor X is to the comics. He has the most impressive powers, and he probably can’t be beaten, but he couldn’t do it without his blade-wielding sidekicks. In this corner, God and the Angels. In that corner, Demons and the Universal New Age Big Government Conspiracy. The match of the eternity! Whee!
As pulp fiction goes, they’re no bad. As theology goes, they’re slapstick.
Prophet is a little darker, choosing to take on the favorite conservative evangelical whipping boy—abortion. The characters are a little more complex than in the previous books, and the tension builds a little better since the threats are more realistic. Still, if you don’t already see the world as Peretti does, I doubt it will change your mind.
