List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Giraffes and Shamblers
Peter Admirand
Part 1: Violence
Chapter 1: Separating the ‘Sci’ from the ‘Fi’: The Ominously Real World of Fungal Pathogens, and the Possibilities of Asthma, Illness, and Outbreak
David O’Connor and Jerry Hourihane Clancy
Chapter 2: Ellie, Abby, and the Hospital Missions in The Last of Us Part II
Amy M. Green
Chapter 3: The Theologies of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Albert Schweitzer in Dialogue with the Moral Landscape of The Last of Us
David K. Goodin
Chapter 4: Everything Happens for a Reason: ‘Pastor’ David, Epistemic Harm, and Religious Trauma Syndrome
Daniel J. Cameron
Chapter 5: Facing the Apocalypse: The Religious Cult of the Seraphites in The Last of Us Part II
Tijana Rupčić
Part 2: Ethics
Chapter 6: On Relationality, Human Beings, and Clickers
Robert Grant Price
Chapter 7: Genesis in Lincoln, MA: The Creation of Bill and Frank in “Long, Long Time”
Ryan Banfi
Chapter 8: Turning Reconsidered: Sam and Henry and the Futility of Nonviolence amidst Racism and Runners
Adam B. Banks
Chapter 9: The Road and The Last of Us: Failed Fathers at the End of the World
Peter Admirand
Part 3: Redemption?
Chapter 10: God’s (Non)Presence, Interdependence, and Hope in The Last of Us: A Theological Reflection
Pavol Bargár
Chapter 11: The Last of Us and Eschatology for a Post-Apocalyptic World
Flora x. Tang
Chapter 12: Carrying the Fire and Finding the Fireflies: Hope, Despair, and Godtalk in the Dystopian Stories of Naughty Dog and Cormac McCarthy
Matthew C. Millsap and Ched Spellman
Chapter 13: “Save Who You Can Save”: Soteriology in The Last of Us
Rebecca Chapman
Conclusion: “Too Much Faith in Humanity?”
Peter Admirand
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