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title: "Offsite Review: The Undead and Theology"
description: "I am not a horror movie fan.  I like the occasional vampire book (both the Twilight and the Bram Stoker variety) and I have read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and I loved TV show Buffy.  But I will not..."
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date: 2013-02-21
modified: 2013-02-21
author: "Adam Shields"
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# Offsite Review: The Undead and Theology

[![The Undead and Theology](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/TheUndeadAndTheology.jpg)](http://erb.kingdomnow.org/the-undead-and-theology-paffenrothmorehead-eds-review/)

I am not a horror movie fan.  I like the occasional vampire book (both the Twilight and the Bram Stoker variety) and I have read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and I loved TV show Buffy.  But I will not watch Walking Dead or other zombie tv or movies.  I get scared too easily.

I do think that monsters to give some interesting insights into theology and I liked the humorous take on monsters and Christianity that Matt Mikalatos had in [The Night of the Living Dead Christian](https://bookwi.se/living-dead/).  So I am not really the target audience for a new collection of essays, The Undead and Theology edited by Kim Paffenrogh and John Morehead, about theology and monsters.  But the review is interesting enough that I thought that some people would like it.  Head over to Englewood Review of Books and check out the review by Amber Peace.

> From the growing popularity of [The Walking Dead](http://amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=The+Walking+Dead+Complete+Season&tag=douloschristo-20) to the predicted Mayan Apocalypse, 2012 was a year focused on End Times and otherworldliness. Fitting right into our curiosity of horror is The Undead and Theology, a collection of essays edited by Kim Paffenroth and John Morehead. They collected several essays under three topics: Vampires, Zombies, and Other Undead. Each essay focuses on a contemporary, pop culture connection to an undead, and then muses on the theological implications of the connection.

[continue reading the rest of the review at Englewood Review of Books](http://erb.kingdomnow.org/the-undead-and-theology-paffenrothmorehead-eds-review/)