| Marvelous Myths: Marvel Superheroes and Everyday Faith Contributor(s): Dalton, Russell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0827223382 ISBN-13: 9780827223387 Publisher: Chalice Press OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 741.538 |
| LCCN: 2011004902 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 7" W x 9.9" (1.13 lbs) 214 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What makes someone a hero? In the early 1960's, the image of a superhero was someone with a square jaw, a muscular build, and a quick smile, whose biggest personal problem was trying to keep their girlfriends from guessing their secret identities. Then writer Stan Lee and artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko created a group of superheroes who revolutionized comics. These heroes, including The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Spider-man, The X-men, Iron Man, Captain America and others, were not perfect heroes living in a perfect world, but fallible people with physical ailments and personal problems like our own. While the authors and artists who created them did not intend to write explicitly religious stories, their tales of imperfect heroes who try to do the right thing despite the many challenges they face, provide us with the opportunity to reflect on our own faith journeys as we strive to live heroic lives in the real world. Each chapter reflects on the heroes' most famous adventures and discusses the ways in which we are called to overcome many of the same obstacles they face as we strive to carry out the ministries to which God calls us. Each chapter ends with questions for reflection or group study. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dalton, Russell: - Russell W. Dalton is the Associate Professor of Christian Education of Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Before coming to Brite he served as the G. Ernest Thomas Professor of Christianity and Communication at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio and Director of United's Master of Arts in Religious Communication degree program. |
