Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination
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Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination

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Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination

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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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Yes, you can access Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination by Fotini Toso, Andrew D. Thrasher,Austin M. Freeman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Literary Criticism in Science Fiction. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction: Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination
  5. Part I: Invocations
  6. Chapter 2: The Old Magic
  7. Part II: Classical Christian Fantasy: Renewing Christian Imagination
  8. Chapter 3: Sins of the Imagination
  9. Chapter 4: C. S. Lewis, Apologetics, and the Imagination: Breaking the Spell of Secularism
  10. Chapter 5: Between Tolkien and the Philosophers : Greek and Scholastic Theories of Phantasia
  11. Part III: Post-Christian Fantasy: Opening the Door Beyond
  12. Chapter 6: Why Theology Should Always Be Fantasy: Imagination, Fantasy, and Science-Fictional Messianism in the Writings of Rabbi Shagar
  13. Chapter 7: Theology in Shadow: A Reflection on Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea
  14. Chapter 8: Cosmology as Agnostic Self-Actualization in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
  15. Chapter 9: Fantastic Inter-Religious Resourcement in Robert Jordan and David Eddings
  16. Chapter 10: The Hero as God: An Exploration of Mormon Soteriology in the Fantasy Novels of Orson Scott Card and Brandon Sanderson
  17. Part IV: Fantasy at Play: Theologizing with Fantastic Games
  18. Chapter 11: Imaginative Hermeneutical Theology: Paul Ricoeur and Dungeons & Dragons
  19. Chapter 12: Magic: The Gathering and Meaning: The Theological Outlook of the World’s Most Complex Game
  20. About the Editors and Contributors‌‌‌‌