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On Christmas Day, the British science fiction series Doctor Who broke new ground: The Doctor (a Superhuman Weather Lord of the planet Gallifrey, who travels through time and space in a vehicle that looks like an old cabin used to call the police) regenerates in After 12 male doctors over 54 years of history Jodie Whittaker’s choice may seem bold, but for a series with a warrior, similar to a prehistoric lizard, married to a 19th-century human servant, a male doctor’s transition to a woman’s body is practically timid.
- At the heart of the series is a much more controversial milestone.
- While the treatment of religion in Doctor Who is almost always negative (see the headless killer monks.
- The life-sucking angels and the portrait of the 51st century church as a purely military operation).
- The parallels between the hero of the series and the heroes of Christianity are undeniable.
The Doctor (whose name is never revealed) looks human, but he is not. In this sense, it is very different from Jesus. But there are at least six aspects in which similarity is hardly overlooked.
But there is a fundamental difference between Doctor Who’s hero and the hero of Christianity. The Doctor fights death with every part of his being. As River says: “Everyone knows that everyone dies and no one knows him like the Doctor, but do you think all the heavens of all worlds can be darkened if he accepts, for a moment, this fact?
And yet the Doctor is ultimately unable to overcome death. It can be “the hope of distant hopes and the dreamer of implausible dreams. “But these dreams and hopes have an expiration date. This ultimate inability to cling to reality is present in the Doctor. worldview as she whispers to her best friend, Amy Pond, while she sleeps: “We’re all stories, in the end. Make a good one, okay?. For a moment, this perspective seems heroic. But if in fact we are nothing but stories, our sense and morality are obscured: we are left unac knowing what it is?History. On the other hand, Jesus invites us to a broader story, a story in which our individual stories make sense.
For a series that actively resists Christian beliefs, the greatest controversy of Doctor Who is that it is clearly inspired by the source of life in the universe, the man whose story has many of who the Doctor is: the true hero who embraces the excluded, gives his life for ours and conquers death.
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By: Rebecca McLaughlin. © The Gospel Coalition. Website: thegospelcoalition. org. Translated with permission. Source: How the hero of?Doctor Who? He’s and he’s not like Jesus.
Original: Like the hero of?Doctor who?And isn’t it? Like Jesus, I © return to the Gospel. Website: VoltemosAoEvangelho. com. All rights reserved. Translation and rereading: William and Camila Rebeca Teixeira.