Literary Theology • Part One of Two
Image Bearers of Something Eternal
Invisibility, Reduction, and Worldview Disclosure in Wells, Matheson, Lewis, Chesterton and Ellison
Three works of speculative fiction — Wells, Matheson, Ellison — use invisibility to ask what makes a human being human. All three answer differently, not because the facts changed, but because their assumptions about reality were never the same to begin with.
Literary Theology
H.G. Wells
Worldview Disclosure
Imago Dei
Chesterton
C.S. Lewis
Ellison
Human Dignity
Literary Theology • Part Two of Two
What Wells Couldn’t See
Structural Blindness and the Invisible Man
The second essay turns the question back on Wells. Invisibility was not only a condition he imposed on Griffin — it was already structuring the world he inhabited. What could Wells not see, and why?
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