Do I really need to justify linking to this fine and thoughful post by Fr Stephen Freeman?
Strangely, I have long thought of science fiction as a form of modern theology – or at least of modern theological thought. It is a sad tragedy that a science fiction writer, in at least one case, was so bold as to create his own religion – but it seems a not so strange result from a genre that is so inherently theological.
Why do I consider science fiction theological? For the simple reason (for the really well-written material) that it has to imagine a world or a universe and what is true and not true for that universal system. There may or may not be any overt religious material in a particular science fiction work, and yet the world it imagines inherently contains rules and norms and a “way things work” such that some theological account is created.
Read the whole thing at Glory to God for All Things. You do not have to register.
Perhaps Fr Stephen also helps us to understand just what theology is.
