Matthew Brake ([...]., Regent University; M.A. in philosophy and interdisciplinary studies, George Mason University) is the series editor for the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series from Lexington Books and Fortress Academic. He also serves as the co-editor (with A. David Lewis) for the Religion and Comics series from Claremont Press.

C.K. Robertson, Ph.D., is an Episcopal priest and professor, editor of the academic book series Studies in Episcopal and Anglican Theology, and a former board member and frequent guest editor of the Anglican Theological Review.

Introduction: Batman as a Focus of Theological Inquiry

C.K. Robertson, Ph.D., and Matthew Brake

Section One: Theodicy and Evil

1. The Karmic Tragedy of Bruce Wayne: Batman as Anti-Buddha

Wesley D. Cray

2. Suffering and Evil in the Book of Job and Batman: The Killing Joke

Francesco Del Bianco

3. Evil After Christianity: Joker (2019) as Post-Christian Theodicy

Katherine Kelaidis

4. Beginning with Wickedness, or the Long Dark Knight of the Polis' Soul

John C. McDowell

5. Batman Encounters Judaism and the Holocaust

Rafael Medoff

Section Two: Ethics and Morality

6. "Fear of Faith" and Faith over Fear: Scarecrow as Emblem of a Purgatorial Gotham

Christina M. Knopf

7. Pride Goeth Before the Knightfall: Sabbath as Heroic Practice

Drew McIntyre

8. Batman Forever: Morality and Narrative in Grant Morrison's Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne

Andrew Kuzma

9. The Bat-Bodhisattva: A Buddhist reading of our favorite (Anti)Hero

John Thompson

10. Batman's Cardinal Virtues in Dark Knight Returns

Joseph Turner

Section Three: Justice and Vengeance

11. Reflections on Revolutionary Gotham: Sovereignty, Sacrifice, and Theological Fantasy in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy

Ryan Haecker

12. No Saviors in Gotham: Black Liberation and Whiteness in Batman: The Cult

Peter Herman

13. Vengeance, Justice, and Batman's War on Crime

Randall M. Jensen

14. False Messiah and Real Devils: Batman and Girard on the Fate of Gotham Mimesis and the Messianic

Clint Jones

15. Fighting for Righteousness: Batman's Atonement

Joshua Wise

Section Four: Deities and the Divine

16. Morality, Epistemology, and How Batman Can Know That God Exists

Batman: Atheist?

Armond Boudreaux

17. How One Becomes What One Is: The Nietzschean Polytheology of Joker (2019)

Vernon W. Cisney

18. Dark Knight of the Soul: Reading Batman with Apophatic Theology

Stephen Garner

19. The Dark Knight and the Dark Side of God

Michael D. Nichols

20. God-Confusion in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Michael Anthony Novak