Theology and the Marvel Universe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theology and the Marvel Universe write by Gregory Stevenson. This book was released on 2019-11-22. Theology and the Marvel Universe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Theology and the Marvel Universe, fourteen contributors examine theological themes and ideas in the comic books, television shows, and films that make up the grand narrative of the Marvel Universe. Engaging in dialogue with theological thinkers such as Willie James Jennings, Franz Rosenzweig, Søren Kierkegaard, René Girard, Kelly Brown Douglas, and many others, the chapters explore a wide variety of topics, including violence, sacrifice, colonialism, Israeli-Palestinian relations, virtue ethics, character formation, identity formation, and mythic reinvention. This book demonstrates that the stories of Thor, Daredevil, Sabra, Spider-Man, Jessica Jones, Thanos, Luke Cage, and others engage not just our imagination, but our theological imagination as well.
Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe write by Michael D. Nichols. This book was released on 2021-02-22. Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Breaking box office records, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has achieved an unparalleled level of success with fans across the world, raising the films to a higher level of narrative: myth. This is the first book to analyze the Marvel output as modern myth, comparing it to epics, symbols, rituals, and stories from world religious traditions. This book places the exploits of Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, and the other stars of the Marvel films alongside the legends of Achilles, Gilgamesh, Arjuna, the Buddha, and many others. It examines their origin stories and rites of passage, the monsters, shadow-selves, and familial conflicts they contend with, and the symbols of death and the battle against it that stalk them at every turn. The films deal with timeless human dilemmas and questions, evoking an enduring sense of adventure and wonder common across world mythic traditions.
Marvelous Myths
Marvelous Myths - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marvelous Myths write by Russell W Dalton. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Marvelous Myths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What makes someone a hero? In the early 1960's, the image of a superhero was someone with a square jaw, a muscular build, and a quick smile whose biggest personal problem was trying to keep their girlfriends from guessing their secret identities. Then writer Stan Lee and artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko created a group of superheroes who revolutionized comics. These heroes, including The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Spider-man, The X-men, Iron Man, Captain America and others, were not perfect heroes living in a perfect world, but fallible people with physical ailments and personal problems like our own. While the authors and artists who created them did not intend to write explicitly religious stories, their tales of imperfect heroes who try to do the right thing despite the many challenges they face, provide us with the opportunity to reflect on our own faith journeys as we strive to live heroic lives in the real world. Each chapter reflects on the heroes' most famous adventures and discusses the ways in which we are called to overcome many of the same obstacles they face as we strive to carry out the ministries to which God calls us. Each chapter ends with questions for reflection or group study.
Theology and Spider-Man
Theology and Spider-Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theology and Spider-Man write by George Tsakiridis. This book was released on 2021-11-11. Theology and Spider-Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theology and Spider-Man provides a look at the religious themes present in one of the most popular heroes of the past half-century, Spider-Man. In order to create a systematic theology of Spider-Man, the contributors delve into themes of sin, salvation, and creedal theology, while also addressing liberation theology, Black theology, bioethics, and hermeneutics. This volume balances theological depth with discussion of the comics and films, which makes it a perfect collection for those interested in theology, Spider-Man, or both.
The Gospel According to Superheroes
The Gospel According to Superheroes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gospel According to Superheroes write by B. J. Oropeza. This book was released on 2005. The Gospel According to Superheroes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. And 1970s, and the dark and violent creatures who embody the pre- and post-millennial crises of faith. Lavishly illustrated, the articles come to startling conclusions about what we have really been reading under the covers with flashlights for generations. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
