The diploma thesis Contemporary American Christian fiction:
Young and Rivers deals with features of the genre and show them
using two books, namely the autobiographical novel The Shack
(2007) written by William Paul Young and the romance novel
Redeeming Love (1997) by Francine Rivers. 
The thesis comments on the social background for the current
rise of Christian fiction in America. Attention is drawn to
Evangelical Christians who are the most probable writers of the
genre. Furthermore, authors’ motivations, general features of
Christian fiction, the most frequent topics together with
possible criticism of the genre are discussed. For later
analysis, defining of the basic aspects of narrative style and
a depiction of the autobiographical and romance novel are
important. The crucial part of the thesis is the analysis of
the above mentioned novels in the context of the information
acquired.