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Poster - Textual or Investigative
Description
Michael Heiser’s work in The Unseen Realm presents the deep mythos of the Bible and the spiritual saga it contains. As society continues to drift deeper into the consequences of Friedrich Nietzsche’s godless universe, Heiser’s unseen realm offers apologists an exciting and beautiful alternate narrative. Christianity is more interesting and compelling than other conceptions of the universe. The biblical worldview calls for humankind to be elevated within its glorification and service to God, and it identifies humanity’s failure as cosmically significant in both Heaven and Earth. While many narratives, ancient and modern, call for the glorification of the human as the ultimate end, Scripture’s spiritual orbit turns the story of life on its head as it culminates in the God-man on the cross. This story of grace provides a powerful response to Nietzsche’s men-above-odds narrative now espoused in modern fantasy, sci-fi, and resurrected pagan mythology. Using Gavin Ortlund’s apologetic of beauty in Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn’t, this research will expound Heiser’s unseen realm and contrast it with the worldview developed in Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals. This apologetic will contrast pagan mythology and human primacy with the fantastical account of the spiritual realm found in Scripture. We also suggest further research examining how Heiser’s work can interact with Jungian psychology to provide persuasive accounts of the Christian metanarrative, and ecclesiological work exploring how churches might invite congregants into practices that catechize them to the cosmic and spiritual nature of the Christian faith.
The Spiritual Realm and the Christian Story: The Apologetic Value of The Unseen Realm by Michael Heiser
Poster - Textual or Investigative
Michael Heiser’s work in The Unseen Realm presents the deep mythos of the Bible and the spiritual saga it contains. As society continues to drift deeper into the consequences of Friedrich Nietzsche’s godless universe, Heiser’s unseen realm offers apologists an exciting and beautiful alternate narrative. Christianity is more interesting and compelling than other conceptions of the universe. The biblical worldview calls for humankind to be elevated within its glorification and service to God, and it identifies humanity’s failure as cosmically significant in both Heaven and Earth. While many narratives, ancient and modern, call for the glorification of the human as the ultimate end, Scripture’s spiritual orbit turns the story of life on its head as it culminates in the God-man on the cross. This story of grace provides a powerful response to Nietzsche’s men-above-odds narrative now espoused in modern fantasy, sci-fi, and resurrected pagan mythology. Using Gavin Ortlund’s apologetic of beauty in Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn’t, this research will expound Heiser’s unseen realm and contrast it with the worldview developed in Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals. This apologetic will contrast pagan mythology and human primacy with the fantastical account of the spiritual realm found in Scripture. We also suggest further research examining how Heiser’s work can interact with Jungian psychology to provide persuasive accounts of the Christian metanarrative, and ecclesiological work exploring how churches might invite congregants into practices that catechize them to the cosmic and spiritual nature of the Christian faith.
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Undergraduate