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The Last of Us and Theology

Violence, Ethics, Redemption?
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 2024

Summary

With a catastrophic fungal pandemic, the post-apocalypse, a moral quest despite societal breakdowns, humans hunting humans or morphed into grotesque infected, The Last of Us video games and HBO series have exhilarated, frightened, and broken the hearts of millions of gamers and viewers. The Last of Us and Theology: Violence, Ethics, Redemption? is a richly diverse and probing edited volume featuring essays from academics across the world to examine theological and ethical themes from The Last of Us universe. Divided into three groupings—Violence, Ethics, and Redemption?—these chapters will especially appeal to The Last of Us fans and those interested in Theology and Pop Culture more broadly. Chapters not only grapple with theologians, ethicists, and novelists like Cormac McCarthy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich; and theological issues from forgiveness and theodicy to soteriology and eschatology; but will help readers become experts on all things fireflies, clickers, Cordyceps, and Seraphites. “Save who you can save” and “Look for the Light.”

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Bibliographic data

Edition
1/2024
Copyright year
2024
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-1635-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-1636-0
Publisher
Fortress, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
230
Product type
Edited Book

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. List of Figures No access
    3. Acknowledgments No access
    4. Introduction No access
    1. Separating the “Sci” from the “Fi” No access
    2. Ellie, Abby, and the Hospital Missions in The Last of Us Part ll No access
    3. The Theologies of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Albert Schweitzer in Dialogue with the Moral Landscape of No access
    4. Everything Happens for a Reason No access
    5. Facing the Apocalypse No access
    1. On Relationality, Human Beings, and Clickers No access
    2. Genesis in Lincoln, MA No access
    3. Turning Reconsidered No access
    4. The Road and The Last of Us No access
    1. God’s (Non)Presence, Interdependence, and Hope in The Last of Us No access
    2. The Last of Us and Eschatology for a Post-Apocalyptic World No access
    3. Carrying the Fire and Finding the Fireflies No access
    4. “Save Who You Can Save” No access
    5. Conclusion: “Too Much Faith in Humanity?” No access
  1. Index No access Pages 213 - 226
  2. About the Contributors No access Pages 227 - 230