The Gospel according to The Simpsons, Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition: With a New Afterword Exploring South Park, Family Guy, & Other Animated TV ShowsWestminster John Knox Press, 24/05/2007 - 317 páginas Is there anything holy in Springfield, the home to irascible Bart Simpson and his naive dad Homer, their enthusiastic evangelical neighbor Ned Flanders, the sourpuss minister Rev. Lovejoy, and the dozens of other unique characters who inhabit the phenomenally popular TV show? In this revision of the 2001 bestseller, author Mark Pinsky says yes! In this entertaining and enlightening book, Pinsky shows how The Simpsons engages issues of religion and morality in a thoughtful, provocative, and genuinely respectful way. With three new chapters and updates to reflect the 2001-2006 seasons, Pinsky has given a thorough facelift to the book that Publishers Weekly called "thoughtful and genuinely entertaining." The new material includes chapters on Buddhism and gay marriage and an extensive afterword that explores how religion is treated on the animated shows that have followed in the footsteps of The Simpsons: South Park, Family Guy, Futurama, American Dad, and King of the Hill. |
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... God in the funniest places. “Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer,” Reinhold Niebuhr observed.8 Or as Conrad Hyers wrote in The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith, “If humor without faith is in danger ...
... God, the devil, angels—and a fully realized universe of faith. Characters believed in a literal heaven and hell, and ... God's existence questioned. Springfield, where the family lives, possesses a rich spiritual life, according to Gerry ...
... God for his life—his marriage, his two children, his job—a constellation in balance that is “absolutely perfect the way it is.” Homer asks that everything be frozen in place. This is impossible, of course, sort of the equivalent of ...
... God from answering Homer's prayer by providing no sign? Granted, usually when we want God to confirm something, we look for something extraordinary, some sign that leaves no doubt of God's will. But presumably God could have made it ...
... God Welcomes His Victims.” Another asks, “Is God Patriotic Enough?” Outside a downtown Springfield homeless shelter, yet another reads, “We Add God to Your Misery.” Predestination makes an appearance from time to time, where God's plan ...
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