Dread and Hope : Christian Eschatology and Pop Culture - Joshua Wise

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Dread and Hope

Christian Eschatology and Pop Culture

By: Joshua Wise

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Hardcover | 3 February 2022

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174 Pages

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Christianity was born in the midst of great expectation and fear about the world's future. The existing Jewish paradigm of the coming Messiah, his antithesis, and the initiation of the coming age through resurrection and destruction set the stage for Christian beliefs about the end of the current age. However, the unexpected death and resurrection of Jesus caused that paradigm to be reformed within the burgeoning Christian faith, reshaping hopes and reworking old patterns.

Dread and Hope explores the ways in which those old paradigms were challenged by Jesus's death and resurrection, how the resulting eschatological landscape was understood within Christianity, and how modern popular culture has consumed and modified various components of Christian Hope. Joshua Wise examines how the central Christian eschatological themes such as the Antichrist, the Great Persecution, Heaven, and Hell have both been transformed and preserved in novels, television, films, and video games. Drawing on works such as 1984, Diablo, The Stand, What Dreams May Come, and the Fallout series, Dread and Hope considers how the human fears and desires shaped by Christian beliefs are expressed in popular culture.

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The Last Things--death, a possible afterlife, the end of the world--have fascinated humanity from the beginning and today is no exception. Joshua Wise surveys the interplay between Christian beliefs and tradition about our ultimate fate and the panoply of presentations of these themes in popular culture, demonstrating a deft command of both fields. Many insights are shared along the way and Wise ends with his own thoughtful reflections on our present cultural moment. An enlightening and enjoyable contribution!

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