Category Archives: theology

Ryan Duns and Theology of Horror

October 26th, 2024 | Posted in horror, theology

Ryan G. Duns, SJ, is my guest in this conversation. Ryan is an associate professor of theology at Marquette University. We discuss his new book Theology of Horror: The Hidden Depths of Popular Films (University of Notre Dame Press, 2024). From the description at Amazon: Theology of Horror explores the dark reaches of popular horror […]

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Matthew Tan discusses Zombie Jesus

October 26th, 2022 | Posted in Christianity, horror, theology, zombie, zombie Jesus

Matthew John Paul Tan discusses his book Redeeming Flesh: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus. He shares how the idea of the zombie, and Zombie Jesus, can be a helpful tool for theological reflection. Tan is Dean of Studies at St. John Vianney College Seminary in Australia. He is also is a theologian […]

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Guest blog post at Pop Culture and Theology

March 31st, 2021 | Posted in horror, theology

I’ve got a new guest blog post at the great Pop Culture and Theology website titled “Theology and Horror: Answering the Concerns of Critics.” It is part of the promotion for my new volume, co-edited with Brandon Grafius, titled Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination.

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“Theology and Horror” gone to press

February 16th, 2021 | Posted in Books, horror, theology

Rowman & Littlefield just informed me that my co-edited volume with Brandon Grafius, Theology and Horror, has gone to press, just in time for the March release date. It’s not cheap, but request it from your library! https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978707986/Theology-and-Horror-Explorations-of-the-Dark-Religious-Imagination Scholars of religion have begun to explore horror and the monstrous, not only within the confines of […]

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Theme of Monsters and the Bible in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

April 20th, 2020 | Posted in Bible, monsters, theology

Monsters and the Bible Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/INT/current Vol. 74, No. 2 (April 2020) On the Impossibility and Inevitability of Monsters in Biblical Thought Kim Paffenroth After general considerations of what constitutes a “monster,” this essay examines the examples of “monsters” in the Bible, showing that the Bible does not as […]

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Interview with Matthew Brake of Pop Culture and Theology

August 26th, 2019 | Posted in comics, pop culture, theology

This morning I had a conversation with Matthew Brake of the Pop Culture and Theology website. I hope you enjoy our video podcast. You can visit his website here.

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Podcast Interview with Doug Cowan on “America’s Dark Theologian”

November 15th, 2018 | Posted in Douglas Cowan, horror, podcast, religion, Stephen King, theology

Doug Cowan has been a frequent guest here at TheoFantastique discussing his books on science fiction, horror and religion. We are pleased to have him back in a podcast where he discusses his new book America’s Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King (New York University Press, 2018). Sit back and enjoy our conversation […]

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Call for Abstracts: Theology and Westworld

November 6th, 2018 | Posted in artificial intelligence, call for papers, robotics, science fiction, theology

Edited by Juli Gittinger and Shayna Sheinfeld The television series Westworld has garnered significant interest from academics as well as from wide audiences. While many of its themes and plot motifs represent longstanding focuses in science fiction, the treatment of them has stood out as especially creative in a number of ways. While the creation […]

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Titles of Interest – Our Old Monsters: Witches, Werewolves and Vampires from Medieval Theology to Horror Cinema

November 6th, 2018 | Posted in theology, Titles of Interest

Our Old Monsters: Witches, Werewolves and Vampires from Medieval Theology to Horror Cinema Brenda S. Gardenour Walter McFarland, 2015 The witch, the vampire and the werewolf endure in modern horror. These “old monsters” have their origins in Aristotle as studied in the universities of medieval Europe, where Christian scholars reconciled works of natural philosophy and […]

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Call for Abstracts: Theology and Horror

November 6th, 2018 | Posted in call for papers, horror, theological reflection, theology

Explorations of the relationship between religion and horror are fairly well established. However, this is not the case for theology and horror. Many times explorations of theology and horror involve simplistic readings in which theological concepts or doctrines are spotted within horror narratives and noted as points of connection. While this approach has its place, […]

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