Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination

by Greg Garrett

Nowadays references to the afterlife-angels strumming harps, demons brandishing pitchforks, God enthroned on heavenly clouds-are more often encountered in New Yorker cartoons than in serious Christian theological reflection. Speculation about death and its sequel seems to embarrass many theologians; however, as Greg Garrett shows in Entertaining Judgment, popular culture in the U.S. has found rich ground for creative expression in the search for answers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199335907
• ISBN13: 9780199335909
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"