What is it about?
Both stories and eschatology deal with "last things." The endings of the novels in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy demonstrate not only her interest in environmentalism, but also, and more surprisingly, her willingness to provide space for a religious way forward. Atwood has recently supported an organization of "real live God's Gardener" Christians in terms of their commitment to the future of the planet.
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Why is it important?
Atwood has commonly been perceived as rabidly anti-religious because of her condemnation of fundamentalism in The Handmaid's Tale. These recent novels, and their relationship to her recent support of A Rocha, a Christian environmentalist organization, encourage a second look at what her fiction has to say about religion.
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Watching Atwood be introduced on TV to the Canadian leaders of A Rocha was fascinating, and pushed me to reexamine the novels. I hope that readers of this article will be similarly encouraged to reread and rethink.
Dr Deborah C. Bowen
Redeemer University College
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This page is a summary of: Ecological Endings and Eschatology: Margaret Atwood’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Christianity & Literature, September 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0148333117715252.
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