Heretical musings on religion and culture from a literary scholar
If you could meet God, what would you ask? This is the basic premise of the 2012 movie Prometheus. Although as entertainment, the movie is weak (for being self-conscious, repetitive, and trying to be deeper than it is) as a theologian and religious researcher, I enjoyed it. There's a ton of references to religion and mythology, including of course the title. Since my PhD Thesis focuses mainly on the figure of Prometheus and rebellion against gods in ...
Jack the Giant Killer, a re-telling of European myth and folklore, starring Nicholas Hoult, Stanley Tucci and Ewan McGregor, is coming out summer 2012! Although you probably know the story by heart, I'll bet you didn't know it's biblical roots. Read on to learn where the story really comes from! History of Jack and the Beanstalk: The earliest printed edition which has survived is the 1807 book The History of Jack and the Bean Stalk, printed by ...
If you're interested in religious mythology, astrological symbolism, or supernatural folklore, grab my book Gods of Myth and Man. You can go buy it on Amazon.
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