Have you ever wondered what the Easter Bunny has to do with Easter? Or what Jesus did for 3 days after he was crucified before He was resurrected? You'll find out in Zombie Jesus and the Easter Bunny, a fun, 32-page illustrated book for kids and adults.
Why are zombies consuming the popular imagination? This book--part social analysis, part theological critique, and part devotional--considers how the zombie can be a way to critically situate our culture, awash with consumer products. Matthew Tan considers how zombies are the endpoint of social theory's exploration of consumer culture and its postsecular turn towards an earthly immortality, enacted on the flesh of consumers. The book also shows how zombies aid our appreciation of Christ's saving work. Through the lens of theology and the prayer of the Stations of the Cross, Tan incorporates social theory's insights on the zombie concerning postmodern culture's yearning for things beyond the flesh and also reveals some of social theory's blind spots. Turning to the Eucharist flesh of Christ, Tan challenges the zombie's secularized narrative of salvation of the flesh, one where flesh is saved by being consumed and made to die. By contrast, Jesus saves by enacting an alternative logic of flesh, one that redeems the zombie's obsession with flesh by eucharistically giving it away. In doing so, Jesus saves by assuming the condition of the zombie, redirecting our logic of consumption and fulfilling our yearning for immortality.
Young Bethany has spent her entire life trying to be righteous and just in the eyes of the Lord. She has worked hard to please her Mama and to make sure she could live up to the trust Reverend Jones had put in her. Now Bethany's faith and life are put to the test as what she always thought was a stone-likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ decides it doesn't want to be up on that cross anymore! Can Bethany stop the Zombie Jesus before he brings the End of Days upon the Earth? With 11 other tales of horror and grotesquery! Ranging from deep space terror (Through The Last WH) to bedbug bizarro (All The Freaky Bedbugs Of The World) and dark horror fantasy (Leather Belts & Wooden Spoons), this collection has a little bit of something for all the warped minds in the world! Keywords: zombies, apocalypse, wormholes, military scifi, horror, dark fantasy, nightmares, aliens, vampires
Already hailed as a landmark in contemporary Catholic theology, Jesus Symbol of God surveys scriptural data, the key moments in the development of doctrine, and the distinctive horizons of our contemporary world to develop a comprehensive and systematic christology for our time. The task of christology is to explain what it means to say that Jesus is the bearer and revealer of God in the Christian community, the decisive mediation of God's salvation -- or, in other words, the symbol of God.
There is something missing in the church today. Stuck in a rut of routines and rituals, the church is caught up in doing what it is “supposed to do” but is lacking the true essence of what it is supposed to provide: life. Real faith--and a real relationship with Jesus--is not about playing by the rules, attending services, and praying before meals. Real faith is more than religion. Believing there is a way to breathe life back into the church, Tyler Edwards adopts a contemporary and entertaining metaphor--zombies--to highlight and challenge the problematic attitude of today’s believers.
In the second volume of this four-volume series, Jesus and a time-traveling Abe Lincoln join forces to save mankind from an apocalyptic zombie uprising, a zombified angel, and a werewolf with a grudge! Accompanied by his ever-faithful zombie sidekick Laz, and his newest companion, King (a male stripper), Jesus must unite any remaining humans in an effort to stop the zombie devastation. But with the world dying around them, will humanity still have faith in the Son of God?
SONS OF ANARCHY meets DAWN OF THE DEAD in this Post-Apocalyptic Thriller of a world gone mad. Wasteland Vikings raid the open roads as cannibal corpses roam the city streets.Romeo and Cisco are members of the Calaveras motorcycle club, who make their stand behind the barbed wire walls of their Texas compound. Cisco is hearing disembodied voices and re-writing the Gospel of Thomas in a tattered notebook while Romeo is seeing visions of Jesus as Armageddon washes across the world. Survivors of the plague must convert or die as vampires who serve the King in Yellow sweep across the land.The two prophets leave the safety of their biker fortress and set out across a post-apocalyptic landscape full of cannibal zombies, psychotic marauders, and biblical plagues while searching for the undead Lamb of God. To reach him they must defeat the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who have taken physical form and roam the American Southwest as twisted riders.
A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.