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The World is Going to Hell!
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“The world is going to hell!!” So begins Rob Joustra’s book, How to Survive the Apocalypse pointing to the prevalence of apocalyptic narratives — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment.
Robert Joustra is Associate Professor of Politics & International Studies at Redeemer University in Hamilton, and founding-Director of Redeemer’s Centre for Christian Scholarship. He has published several books and is currently working on three more books. In 2016 he published (with Alissa Wilkinson) How to Survive the Apocalypse. Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories — from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead — and argue that such apocalyptic stories reveal a lot about our culture, here and now, and about how our society conceives of life together including some of the deepest tensions and anxieties prevalent in our day..
Besides analyzing this dystopian shift in popular culture, Joustra and Wilkinson also suggest how Christians can live faithfully and with integrity in such a cultural context. Bill and Winston explore what these dark cultural overtones mean to the mission of the church.
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