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Defense Against the Harry Haters

Casting Out the Harry Potter Demons

by Travis Prinzi 05.03.2008

by Travis
We’ve had a good amount of discussion here about the term “fundamentalism” as it applies to Christian anti-Potter crowd. There’s been some disagreement about what the term means. This post might help clarify what I mean when I use the term. Some time ago, I began writing some satire of [...]

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Scripture Quotations and Struggling with Faith

by Behold a Phoenix 10.19.2007

by Johnny
I received an early morning surprise yesterday as I checked this site and clicked on the link to MTV News where J.K. Rowling opened up about the Christian content in the Harry Potter novels. I do have to say that it was inevitable. JKR told Evan Solomon in July 2000, “[T]here is so much [...]

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Hog’s Head PubCast #38: Rowling Discusses Christian Content of Harry Potter!

by Travis Prinzi 10.17.2007

Rowling discusses the specific Christian content of the Harry Potter series.
We will return to Lovecraft studies with the next podcast. If you’re still having trouble getting into Lovecraft, try listening to the audio version of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, being released in 5 parts by the Atlanta Radio Theater Company (parts 1&2 presently [...]

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Rowling Discusses Christian Content of Harry Potter!

by Travis Prinzi 10.17.2007

Well, it’s finally happening: Rowling is specifically discussing the Christian content of the Harry Potter series.
John Granger has got discussion going at HogPro.
I think we’ll interrupt some of the Lovecraft discussion for a few posts on this, given that it’s pretty big news and pertains to what we’ve been discussing here for over two years!  [...]

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Responding to Berit Kjos

by Behold a Phoenix 09.29.2007

by Johnny
Berit Kjos, one of the most staunch opponents of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, reveals her gross misunderstanding of Deathly Hallows in her review, “Harry’s Last Battle & Rowling’s Beliefs“. Concentrating on the Vancouver Sun quotation where JKR told Max Wyman that if she discussed her faith then the “intelligent reader, whether 10 or [...]

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Gnostic Worldview in Harry Potter?

by Behold a Phoenix 09.13.2007

by Johnny
I want to briefly respond to the assertion held by “culture warriors” like Michael D. O’Brien, Tom Snyder, and Ted Baehr that there are Gnostic elements in Harry Potter. The latter two, in “Don’t Be Fooled”, mentions “Gnosticism” in passing as one of the ingredients along with “modern humanism” and “pagan/occult ideas about the [...]

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Harry’s Christian Cred

by Dave the Longwinded 09.11.2007

by Dave
Harry’s credibility as a Christian symbol/figure fixed well and good within the Christian tradition marks most of the public discussion of HP in the wake of Deathly Hallows. I’m not nearly as well versed in theology and Christian thinking as Travis or Johnny, but I do teach a lot of Rhetoric/Composition for a [...]

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Hog’s Head PubCast #35: A Defense Class

by Travis Prinzi 09.10.2007

Response to Drs Synder and Baehr about Deathly Hallows, in which the sarcasm is plentiful and the responses are right off the top of my head with zero preparation.
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No pubcast next week; it’s moving weekend for us!
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