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Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination is an edited collection at the intersection of theology, religion, and philosophy and fantasy literature and table-top games. The volume begins with an invocation of the "old magic" of pre-modern theology and follows with analyses of classical Christian fantasy. The second section articulates a "post-Christian" turn in fantasy since the late twentieth century, arguing how fantasy can serve to re-enchant the imagination in ways that moves beyond traditional Christianity. The last section on fantasy at play explores how religion is at play in Dungeons and Dragons and in Magic: the Gathering.
Contents
1. Introduction: Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination
Andrew D. Thrasher and Austin M. Freeman
Part I: Invocations
2. The Old Magic
Nicholas Adams
Part II: Classical Christian Fantasy: Renewing Christian Imagination
3. Sins of the Imagination
Austin M. Freeman
4. C.S. Lewis, Apologetics, and the Imagination: Breaking the Spell of Secularism
Alison Milbank
5. Between Tolkien and the Philosophers: Greek and Scholastic Theories of Phantasia
Giovanni Carmine Costabile
Part III: Post-Christian Fantasy: Opening the Door Beyond
6. Why Theology Should Always Be Fantasy: Imagination, Fantasy, and Science-Fictional Messianism in the Writings of Rabbi Shagar
Levi Morrow
7. Theology in Shadow: Sin and Redemption in Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea
Oliver D. Crisp
8. Cosmology as Agnostic Self-Actualization in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
U-Wen Low
9. Fantastic Inter-Religious Resourcement in Robert Jordan and David Eddings
Andrew D. Thrasher
10. The Hero as God: An Exploration of Mormon Soteriology in the Fantasy Novels of Orson Scott Card and Brandon Sanderson
Josh Herring
Part IV: Fantasy at Play: Theologizing with Fantastic Games
11. Imaginative Hermeneutical Theology: Paul Ricoeur and Dungeons & Dragons
Scott Donahue-Martens
12. Magic: The Gathering and Meaning: The Theological Outlook of the World's Most Complex Game
Jacob Torbeck