Theology and the DC Universe

Gabriel Mckee (M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School) is Librarian for Collections and Services at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. Roshan Abraham (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an instructor/advisor in American University’s First-Year Experience program and an adjunct professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion.

• Introduction – Gabriel Mckee and Roshan Abraham1. A Plenitude of Creators: Cosmogony in the DC and Christian Canons – Christopher Heard2. By(e) Rao! Personification or Deception – David A. Skelton3. Reimagining Gnostic Theo-Mythology through Grant Morrison’s JLA: Rock of Ages – Matthew J. Dillon4. Superman v. The Powers: What Walter Wink’s Nonviolent Theology Reveals About the Man of Steel’s “No-Killing” Rule – Andrew Kuzma5. Providentialism and Political Religion: Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel – John C. McDowell6. Wonder Woman and the Labors of Hercules – Janelle Peters7. Dr. Fate and Meher Baba: The Aesthetics of a Comic Book Cosmology – James Newell8. The Queer Theology of the Doom Patrol – Michael Barnes Norton and Jana McAuliffe9. The St. Francis of the DC Universe: How Animal Man Makes the Case for Pluralism in Animal Ethics – Andrew Kuzma10. The Gospel According to Robin Hood and the Rebirth of Green Arrow – Danielle Terceiro11. In the Land of No Return: Nergal and Mesopotamian Relig

A fascinating and thought-provoking deep dive into the religious, spiritual, and metaphysical dimensions of the DC Universe.