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

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By (author): Andrew Shamel

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. See more
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Will deliver when available. Publication date 30 Nov 2024

Product Details
  • Publication Date: 30 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781009542609

About Andrew Shamel

Andrew Shamel is Chaplain and Lord Crewe Career Development Fellow at Lincoln College Oxford. He is in addition the Treasurer of the Society for the Study of Theology (SST). Theology and the Mythic Sensibility is his first book.

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