zombies
Raising the dead, with and without hope
As Easter approaches, raising the dead is at the forefront of my mind. But I think of a different vision of resurrected dead, zombies. The popular monsters reanimate as gruesome bodies; their essential natures, spirits, or souls are absent. Zombies are a reckoning of the horror of the dead coming back to life.
Invasion of the Dead, by Brian K. Blount
Brian Blount mounts a sweeping plea for bold preaching about the God who invades and routes death. Resurrection, he argues, transforms all of us “living dead” into witnesses.
reviewed by William H. Willimon
Can Brad Pitt save us from the (secular) apocalypse?
In the opening scenes of World War Z, a news montage assaults the viewer. Clips document epidemics, wolves, global warming, reality television, pundits and others forms of dangerous nature. They evoke a world in seeming decline, in which one pivotal moment could lead to the global disaster from which we might not recover. Chaos and inevitable decline set the tone for the film.
But what ends us in World War Z are zombies.
The zombie war
Whatever else zombies are, they're a parody of Christian hope for the resurrection of the body.
Attack of the zombies
All zombie plots include great hordes of the stalking dead. But the genre is maturing.
by Rodney Clapp