Last month I took a trip with a group of college students from my church to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY to attend the Give Me an Answer conference. The theme of the conference was the uniqueness of Christ in a post-modern world, seeking to explore how Christians can believe in Jesus as the only savior in a culture that rejects claims of absolute truth.
One of the elective sessions I attended at the conference was entitled "The Gospel and Science Fiction," a talk given by Timothy Jones, a professor at the seminary, on the spiritual and theological themes found in the sci-fi genre, most notably Star Wars. Professor Jones touched upon many of the same things I had been thinking about lately and bringing up on this blog, namely the ways in which many secular science fiction stories tap into humanity's innate spirituality while still falling short in many ways from arriving at real truth. It wasn't too much of a jump to apply his concepts to superhero comics.
An MP3 of the session may be downloaded here, and the powerpoint slides used in the presentation can be obtained here.
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