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Theology, fantasy, and the imagination
Title
Theology, fantasy, and the imagination / edited by Andrew D. Thrasher and Austin M. Freeman, with Fontini Toso.
ISBN
9781978712188
1978712189
9781978712195
Publication
Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books : Fortress Adademic, [2023]
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
vi, 231 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Theology, fantasy, and the imagination is an edited collection at the intersection of theology, religion, and philosophy and fantasy literature and table-top games. Contributors analyze theological, religious, and philosophical themes in classical Christian fantasy, contemporary "post-Christian" fantasy, and fantasy at play in Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: the Gathering"-- Provided by publisher.
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ebook version :
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 07, 2024
Series
Theology, religion, and pop culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : theology, fantasy, and the imagination / Andrew D. Thrasher, Austin M. Freeman
The old magic / Nicholas Adams
Sins of the imagination / Austin M. Freeman
C.S. Lewis, apologetics, and the imagination : breaking the spell of secularism / Alison Milbank
Between Tolkien and the philosophers : Greek and scholastic theories of phantasia / Giovanni Carmine Costabile
Why theology should always be fantasy : imagination, fantasy, and science-fictional Messianism in the writings of Rabbi Shagar / Levi Morrow
Theology in shadow : sin and redemption in Ursula K. Le Guin's A wizard of Earthsea / Oliver D. Crisp
Cosmology as agnostic self-actualization in Terry Pratchett's Discworld / U-Wen Low
Fantastic inter-religious resourcement in Robert Jordan and David Eddings / Andrew D. Thrasher
The hero as god : an exploration of Mormon soteriology in the fantasy novels of Orson Scott Card and Brandon Sanderson / Josh Herring
Imaginative hermeneutical theology : Paul Ricoeur and Dungeons & Dragons / Scott Donahue-Martens
Magic : the gathering and meaning : the theological outlook of the world's most complex game / Jacob Torbeck.
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