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Science Fiction Theology: Beauty and the Transformation of the Sublime
Alan P. R. Gregory
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Description for Science Fiction Theology: Beauty and the Transformation of the Sublime
Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DS; FL; HRAB; HRC; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 237 x 29. Weight in Grams: 628.
Science fiction imagines a universe teeming with life and thrilling possibility, but also hidden and hideous dangers. Christian theology, often a polemical target for science fiction, reflects on the plenitude out of which and for which the universe exists. In Science Fiction Theology , Alan Gregory investigates the troubled relationship between science fiction and Christianity and, in particular, how both have laid claim to the modern idea of sublimity. To the extent that science fiction has appropriatedaand reveledain the sublime, it has persisted in a sometimes explicit, sometimes subterranean, relationship with Christian theology. From its seventeenth-century beginnings, the sublime, ... Read more
Science fiction imagines a universe teeming with life and thrilling possibility, but also hidden and hideous dangers. Christian theology, often a polemical target for science fiction, reflects on the plenitude out of which and for which the universe exists. In Science Fiction Theology , Alan Gregory investigates the troubled relationship between science fiction and Christianity and, in particular, how both have laid claim to the modern idea of sublimity. To the extent that science fiction has appropriatedaand reveledain the sublime, it has persisted in a sometimes explicit, sometimes subterranean, relationship with Christian theology. From its seventeenth-century beginnings, the sublime, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
597g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781602584600
SKU
V9781602584600
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99-24
About Alan P. R. Gregory
Alan P. R. Gregory is Principal of the South East Institute for Theological Education.
Reviews for Science Fiction Theology: Beauty and the Transformation of the Sublime
An argument that deserves to have a wide readership.
Pierre W. Whalon
Anglican Theological Review ...deploying the sublime as a prism through which to compare and contrast science fiction and theology is a master stroke.
John Saxbee
Church Times
Pierre W. Whalon
Anglican Theological Review ...deploying the sublime as a prism through which to compare and contrast science fiction and theology is a master stroke.
John Saxbee
Church Times