Theology and the Mythic Sensibility
Human Myth-Making and Divine Creativity
Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-54260-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-54260-9 (ISBN)
Theology and the Mythic Sensibility will be attractive to anyone with an interest in stories and how they reveal the world to be full of meaning. It will be of particular interest to theologians, clergy, and anyone curious about what Christian theology can tell us about both popular culture and fantasy literature.
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.
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.
Andrew Shamel is Chaplain and Lord Crewe Career Development Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is in addition the Treasurer of the Society for the Study of Theology (SST). Theology and the Mythic Sensibility is his first book.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Myth/Making: 1. Mythic sensibility; 2. Making; 3. Creation & participation; Part II. Myth & Culture: 4. The mythopoieic roots of theology; 5. Making toward God; 6. Mythopoiesis and difference; 7. Taste and see; Part III. All in Christ: 8. The mythos of Christ; 9. Baptism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.11.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
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| ISBN-10 | 1-009-54260-5 / 1009542605 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-54260-9 / 9781009542609 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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