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While science fiction has predicted many beneficial technologies, the genre is permeated with unrealism, humanism, occultism, New Age philosophy, and Eastern mysticism. Interest in science fiction has grown dramatically in recent decades.
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Aug 23, 2024 · Is there such a thing as Christian science fiction? Take a look at the genre and some great Christian sci-fi books you can start reading now.
I really enjoy hard science fiction—science fiction that uses real science—and Shivering World is an excellent example of the subgenre. The story revolves around terraforming and genetic research, but there is a lot more going on here.
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- “Desperation” Released in 2006, “Desperation” is based off a book of the same name by Stephen King that tells the story of a family that is thrown into jail without reason and seeks to escape.
- “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” Harry Potter is known as the boy who lived. But he might as well be known as Matthew. According to Christianity Today, the seventh Harry Potter film and book are actually telling the story of Matthew 6:19-24.
- “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” According to Got Questions, a Bible research organization, the C.S. Lewis novel and movie that shows a group of kids entering a fantasy realm that has fallen under darkness is an allegory for the story of Jesus Christ.
- “Noah” The recent blockbuster hit “Noah” isn’t just the biblical story of “Noah.” In fact, it may be anything but that. The film touches on the story, but adds monumental amounts of fictional material, which isn’t a surprise, given the brevity of the biblical story.
Jul 25, 2005 · Fantasy and science fiction are about wonder and purpose. By putting people into impossible circumstances, they ask, “Who are we? Why are we here?” These implicitly spiritual stories, just as explicitly spiritual ones, can be divided into parables and fables. Mysteries and romances, like Jesus’ stories about servants, are meant to be ...
Christian Science Fiction is a much under appreciated genre. A popular form of Science Fiction is Dystopian fiction, which necessarily depicts a future in which Christianity is absent and therefore it provides a natural narrative framework within which to explore Christian themes.
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Although elements of the genre can be traced back further (see Roberts 2005), science fiction as a recognizable category is largely the product of the late nineteenth–early twentieth century, a time of growing scientific optimism and religious skepticism.
