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What is the difference between Christian women's fiction and Contemporary Christian Romance?

Asked by CathyBryant (51points) January 9th, 2009

I’ve always wondered about this. Does anyone have an answer?

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I would imagine that romance is a subset of women’s fiction, and so if I heard of a book that was Contemporary Christian Romance, I’d expect the guy to get the girl at the end after a series of obstacles, since that’s what romance novels do. The contemporary Christian aspect of it would suggest to me that the girl would be rewarded somehow for conforming to what evangelicals see as good behavior, and possibly that the guy would start out as behaving inappropriately but would be brought to Jesus by his love for the chaste Christian woman.

Christian women’s fiction is considerably more open-ended a description, although depending on who was describing it thus I might still expect heavy-handed moralizing and characters acting as they do for didactic rather than organic reasons.

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