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Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination
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2023
Summary
Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination offers analyses of the theological, philosophical, and religious imagination found in fantasy literature, the theological imagination, and table-top games. Part I offers an invocation to the study through a theological reflection of the “old magic.” Part II analyzes classical Christian fantasy—ranging from dogmatic theological reflection on the fantastic imagination to analyses of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Part III analyzes the post-Christian turn in fantasy after about 1960 through today—featuring methodological, theological, and philosophical essays that reflect a movement beyond Christianity in the fantasy literature and writings of Rabbi Shagar, Ursula le Guin, Terry Pratchett, Robert Jordan and David Eddings, and Brandon Sanderson and Orson Scott Card. Part IV closes with two analyses of the religious and philosophical dimensions of table-top games, including Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: the Gathering. Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination offers astute analyses of how theological fantasy actually is by articulating the religious, philosophical, and theological dimensions of the fantastic imagination.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-1218-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-1219-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
232
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
The Old Magic No access
Sins of the Imagination No access
C. S. Lewis, Apologetics, and the Imagination No access
Between Tolkien and the Philosophers No access
Why Theology Should Always Be Fantasy No access
Theology in Shadow No access
Cosmology as Agnostic Self-Actualization in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld No access
Fantastic Inter-Religious Resourcement in Robert Jordan and David Eddings No access
The Hero as God No access
Imaginative Hermeneutical Theology No access
Magic: The Gathering and Meaning No access
Index No access Pages 225 - 228
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 229 - 232
