Theological reflection in pop culture

/ 24 March 2012

There’s a lovely reflection on the television series Mad Men in the most recent edition of the Harvard Divinity Bulletin. A taste:

Mad Men is most theological when it articulates the hope offered in memory and imagination rendered transformative. In its characters' pushes and pulls toward authenticity across time -- however fleeting -- we see that a move away from an identity based on persuasion and power might yet be one toward a more integrated self. In these moments we are shown that the good and the beautiful might be revealed in what is yet to come, but perhaps only by first looking deeply into what has been.
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