Theology and Spider-Man

Engaging themes of sin, salvation, and creedal theology, the contributors to Theology and Spider-Man create a systematic and constructive theology of one of Marvel's most popular heroes.

Introduction: Theologizing the Spider
George Tsakiridis
1 Sin and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man: A Spider-Harmatiology
Jerome Van Kuiken
2 Tyger, Lamb, Spider, Hunter: "Kraven's Last Hunt" and The Web of Theodicy
Peter Admirand
3 Untangling the Web of Sins: The Superior Spider-Man as Secular Hagiography
David K. Goodin
4 Let Him Be to You as a Goblin: Forgiveness as the Defeat of Evil in Spider-Man Comics
Travis B. Hill
5 "Look out, here comes the Spider-Man": An Exploration of the Creedal Theology of Spider-Man
George Tsakiridis
6 Moral Formation in Pedagogies of Violence: Civil War's Peter Parker
John C. McDowell
7 Peter Parker's Progeny: Power, Genetics, and Virtuous Parenting in Spider-Girl
Michael Buttrey and Leah DeJong
8 "Not Gonna Turn Invisible": Into the Spider-Verse and Black Theology
Matthew Vega and Russell P. Johnson
9 A Web of Significations: The Hermeneutics of Theological Anthropology in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)
Ched Spellman
10 Venom the Liberation Theologian
Josh McDonald
11 Loss, Death, and Afterlife: Thanatology and Theology in Spider-Man Comics
Allan Novaes
12 Spider-Man: An Icon in your Pocket
Joseph E. Gaston