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Author | : Nicole L. Tilford |
Publisher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2023-04-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1628374616 |
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What does a first-generation female robot have in common with the biblical figure of Eve? Or an intergenerational spaceship with Noah’s ark? If a computer compiles a deceased person’s photographs and digital activities into a virtual avatar, is that a form of resurrection? Such seemingly unlikely scenarios are common in science fiction—and science fiction writers often draw on people, places, and events from biblical texts, assuming that audiences will understand the parallels. Biblical Themes in Science Fiction is a journey from creation to apocalypse where contributors Frank Bosman, Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, Krista N. Dalton, Tom de Bruin, James F. McGrath, Kelly J. Murphy, Steven J. Schweitzer, Jason A. Staples, Nicole L. Tilford, Christine Wenderoth, and Jackie Wyse-Rhodes trace biblical themes as they appear in contemporary science fiction, including Doctor Who, Lilith’s Brood, The Handmaid’s Tale, Battlestar Galactica, and Fallout 3. Essays are supplemented by images and key science fiction sources for diving deeper into how the Bible influenced writers and creators. An afterword considers the imaginative impulses common to both science fiction and biblical texts.
Author | : James F McGrath |
Publisher | : Lutterworth Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2012-09-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0718840968 |
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This multidisciplinary book focuses on the intersection between religion and science fiction. Several perspectives are addressed by scholars from different disciplines: theology, literature, history, music, and anthropology. From Frankenstein, by way of Christian apocalyptic, to Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and much more, and from the United States to China and back again, the authors who contribute to this volume serve as guides in the exploration of religion and science fiction as a multifaceted, multidisciplinary, and multicultural phenomenon.
Author | : Thomas Bertonneau |
Publisher | : Brazos Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
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The authors explore the explicitly Christian implications and meanings of six classic sci-fi television series: "Doctor Who, Star Trek, The Prisoner, The Twilight Zone, The X-Files," and "Babylon Five."
Author | : James A. Herrick |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830825886 |
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What does science have to do with science fiction? What does science fiction have to do with scientists? What does religion have to do with science and science fiction? In the spiritual vacuum of our post-Christian West, new mythologies continually arise. The sources of much religious speculation, however, may be surprising. Author James Herrick directs our attention to a wide range of scientists, filmmakers, science fiction writers and religious philosophers and discovers there the role that science and science fiction have played in such mythmaking. From scientists such as Francis Bacon, Francis Crick, Carl Sagan and Freeman Dyson, to filmmakers such as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, to science fiction writers such as Olaf Stapledon, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, Herrick finds a curious collusion of science with science fiction for promoting and justifying alternative spiritualities. The rise of these new mythologies, he argues, is no longer a curiosity at the edge of Western culture. This alchemy is catalyzing a religious vision of new gods, a new humanity, and alien races with superior intelligence and secret knowledge. This new mythology overshadows the realms of politics, science and religion. Should we follow such visions? Does science endorse these mythologies? Are we being offered a spirituality superior to the Judeo-Christian tradition? This book will help you decide.
Author | : Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin de Grainville |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780819566089 |
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New English translation of this “demise of the human race” story.
Author | : Mike Duran |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 2015-05-05 |
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ISBN | : 9780990907732 |
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Author | : James F. McGrath |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2016-09-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498204511 |
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What is the difference between a god and a powerful alien? Can an android have a soul, or be considered a person with rights? Can we imagine biblical stories being retold in the distant future on planets far from Earth? Whether your interest is in Christianity in the future, or the Jedi in the present--and whether your interest in the Jedi is focused on real-world adherents or the fictional religion depicted on the silver screen--this book will help you explore the intersection between theology and science fiction across a range of authors and stories, topics and questions. Throughout this volume, James McGrath probes how science fiction explores theological themes, and vice versa, making the case (in conversation with some of your favorite stories, TV shows, and movies) that the answers to humanity's biggest questions are best sought by science fiction and theology together as a collaborative effort.
Author | : Frederick A. Kreuziger |
Publisher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780879723675 |
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Science fiction captures contemporary sentiment with its faith in a scientific/technological future, its explorations of the ultimate meaning of man's existence. Kreuziger is interested particularly in the apocalyptic visions of science fiction compared to the biblical revelations of John and Daniel. For some time our confidence has been placed largely in science, which has practically become a religion. Science fiction articulates the consequences of a faith in a technological future.
Author | : Lydia Millet |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2020-05-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1324005041 |
Download A Children's Bible: A Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others National Bestseller "A blistering little classic." —Ron Charles, Washington Post A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside. Lydia Millet’s prophetic and heartbreaking story of generational divide offers a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.
Author | : George R. Stewart |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1993-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0899683703 |
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