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A TERMINATOR, A TRANSFORMER, AND JOB MEET: CREATOR–CREATED RELATIONS IN FILM AND SCRIPTURE
Author(s) -
Jones E. Allen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/zygo.12318
Subject(s) - hollywood , narrative , constructive , sociology , aesthetics , epistemology , literature , computer science , art , philosophy , process (computing) , art history , operating system
In this essay, I set the book of Job in dialogue with a number of films from the robot science fiction subgenre. It is my intention to show that both sets of literature are deeply engaged with questions related to how creators and created things can interact, and that they deal with these questions in ways that illuminate and complement each other. The study proceeds in three phases. First, I develop a typology of robot science fiction as I see it in Hollywood cinematic presentation. Second, I turn to unpack God's response to Job's complaint in Job 38. In this section, I focus particularly on God's self‐description through constructive and parental metaphors. Finally, I suggest how reading these texts together can sharpen our understanding of the way in which the biblical narrative addresses relational dynamics between a creating God and humans as created beings.