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It is a selection of new essays at the non secular issues in, and the results of, the works of Joss Whedon, author of such indicates as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and extra lately author and director of the box-office hit Marvel's The Avengers. The booklet addresses such subject matters as ethics, racism, feminism, politics, witchcraft, non secular transformation, id, group, heroism, apocalypse, and different theologically major issues of Whedon's inventive firms. The disciplinary ways differ to boot; background, theology, philosophy of faith, phenom­enology, cultural stories, and non secular stories are all hired. some of the essay authors fluctuate in that a few are truly believers in God, a few are in actual fact now not, and others go away that topic apart.

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In that both Christ and Buffy possess a human nature, they are indeed similar at a fundamental level, a similarity that enables Christ, according to Christian theology, to truly save all of fallen humanity. In contemporary discussions of gender and Christology, theologians like Elisabeth Behr-Sigel have helpfully stressed Christ’s representation and redemption, in his humanity, of both genders, and his free offer of salvation to woman no less than man. See Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, “Woman Too is in The Image of God,” Mid-Stream 21, no 3 ( July 1982), 369–375.

He does not get a chance to say what exactly she has ruined due to being bludgeoned to death, but Buffy has clearly ruined his whole hellish realm; she has slain him and his demons, and has freed his prisoners. Hell has been abolished. Next, let us compare “Anne” to the Anastasis icon, for there we find an even closer iconic similarity. In the icon, Satan/death lies among the fallen gates of hell, with the triumphant Christ standing above him. In the final scene in hell in “Anne,” Ken, the Satanic ruler, lies beneath the fallen gate of hell, shackled not by fetters but by the gate itself.

A. MacCulloch, The Harrowing of Hell: A Comparative Study of an Early Christian Doctrine (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1930). 38 Joss Whedon and Religion 6. org/archdiocese/departments/outreach/greatlent/resurrectionhandout. 7. Ibid. 8. Ibid. 9. ” every time the priest reads each phrase. 10. jpg. 11. As Alyssa Lyra Pitstick explains, “Christ’s clothing, activity, and mandorla in this icon are in unmistakable contrast to the naked, limp, and apparently merely human Christ in icons of the crucifixion. ” Alyssa Lyra Pitstick, Light in Darkness: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Catholic Doctrine of Christ’s Descent into Hell (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007), 78.

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