- 234 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
How do stories change the way we see both ourselves and the world? That question is the starting-point of this accomplished new contribution to narrative theology. Dr Shamel addresses what he calls mythopoieic fantasy: the fictionalised myth-making occupying those twilight borderlands between contemporary secularity and a religious worldview. Exploring key writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, and J. K. Rowling, the author argues that the mythic turn of popular culture signals an ongoing hunger for something 'more': more dense, more present, more 'real'. For Dr Shamel, mythopoieic fantasy and Christian theology represent the same human impulse: a desire to participate in the divine. Despite the avowed secularity of many authors of fantasy literature, the creativity of their mythic fictions reveals something of the theological character of all human making. The stories we tell in order to encounter the world as meaningful, argues Dr Shamel, in fact emerge within a theological horizon.
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Topic
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TheologyTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Reviews
- Title page
- Imprints page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Myth/Making
- Part II Myth and Culture
- Part III All in Christ
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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