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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Giraffes and Shamblers
- Part I: Violence
- Chapter 1: Separating the “Sci” from the “Fi”: The Ominously Real World of Fungal Pathogens and the Possibilities of Asthma, Illness, and Outbreak
- Chapter 2: Ellie, Abby, and the Hospital Missions in The Last of Us Part
- Chapter 3: The Theologies of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Albert Schweitzer in Dialogue with the Moral Landscape of The Last of Us
- Chapter 4: Everything Happens for a Reason: “Pastor” David, Epistemic Harm, and Religious Trauma Syndrome
- Chapter 5: Facing the Apocalypse: The Religious Cult of the Seraphites in
- Part II: Ethics
- Chapter 6: On Relationality, Human Beings, and Clickers
- Chapter 7: Genesis in Lincoln, MA: The Creation of Bill and Frank in “Long, Long Time”
- Chapter 8: Turning Reconsidered: Sam and Henry and the Futility of Nonviolence amidst Racism and Runners
- Chapter 9: The Road and The Last of Us: Failed Fathers at the End of the World
- Part III: Redemption?
- Chapter 10: God’s (Non)Presence, Interdependence, and Hope in The Last of Us: A Theological Reflection
- Chapter 11: The Last of Us and Eschatology for a Post-Apocalyptic World
- Chapter 12: Carrying the Fire and Finding the Fireflies: Hope, Despair, and Godtalk in the Dystopian Stories of Naughty Dog and Cormac McCarthy
- Chapter 13: “Save Who You Can Save”: Soteriology in The Last of Us
- Chapter 14: Conclusion: “Too Much Faith in Humanity?”
- About the Contributors