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Cambridge University Press Theology and the Mythic Sensibility: Human Myth-Making and Divine Creativity

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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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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1009542605
Category: Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Religious & Inspirational > Science Fiction & Fantasy
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 21 November 2024
Listed Since: 15 April 2024

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