Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index.
Contents:
Modern Re-enchantment and Dr. Strange: Pentecostal Analogies, the Spirit of the Multiverse, and the Play on Time and Eternity / Andrew D. Thrasher. "I Was Never the Hero that You Wanted Me to Be": The Ethics of Self-Sacrifice and Self-Preservation in Jessica Jones / Taylor J. Ott -- Mythology, Mimesis, and Apocalypse in Jonathan Hickman's Avengers / Matthew Brake -- "Because You Exist": Biblical Literature and Violence in the X-Men Comic Books / Dan W. Clanton, Jr. -- The Gospel According to Thanos: Violence, Utopia, and the Case for a Material Theology / Tim Posada -- "Those Are the Ancestors You Hear": Marvel's Luke Cage and Franz Rosenzweig's Theology of the Creation / Levi Morrow -- Spider-Man and the Theology of Weakness / Gregory Stevenson -- Of Venom & Virtue: Venom as Insight into Issues of Identity, the Human Condition, and Virtue / Jeremy E. Scarbrough -- Matt Murdock's Ill-fitting Catholic Faith in Netflix's Daredevil / Daniel D. Clark -- Gods upon Gods: Hierarchies of Divinity in the Marvel Universe / Austin M. Freeman -- The Thor Movies and the "Available" Myth: Mythic Reinvention in Marvel Movies / Andrew Tobolowsky -- Thor: Ragnarok, Postcolonial Theology, and Life Together / Kevin Nye -- Savage Monster or Grieving Mother? Sabra and Marvel's Political Theology of Reconciliation in Israel-Palestine / Amanda Furiasse -- Modern Re-enchantment and Dr. Strange: Pentecostal Analogies, the Spirit of the Multiverse, and the Play on Time and Eternity / Andrew D. Thrasher.
Summary:
Theology and the Marvel Universe combines cutting-edge scholarship on theology with the comic, film, and television stories of the Marvel Universe. Fourteen contributors from around the world engage these stories in a theological dialogue that highlights the significance of these stories as a vibrant part of our cultural mythology.
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