Science Fiction Theology: Beauty and the Transformation of by Alan P. R. Gregory
By Alan P. R. Gregory
To the level that technology fiction has appropriated—and reveled—in the elegant, it has persevered in a occasionally specific, occasionally subterranean, courting with Christian theology. From its seventeenth-century beginnings, the chic, with its representations of immensity, has knowledgeable the imagining of God. while technology fiction reviews or reinvents faith, its writers have engaged in a literary guerrilla battle with Christianity over what's really chic and divine.
Gregory examines the elegant and its implicit theologies as they seem in early American pulp technology fiction, the horror writing of H. P. Lovecraft, technological know-how fiction narratives of evolution and apocalypse, and the paintings of Philip ok. Dick. sarcastically, technology fiction’s tussle with Christianity hides the level to which the chic, in particular in pop culture, serves to distort the classical Christian figuring out of God, secularizing that God and rendering God’s transcendence finite. yet by way of turning from the chic to a attention of the gorgeous, Gregory exhibits that either Christian and science-fictional imaginations may possibly find a new and brilliant conversation.
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