The Maze Runner, the pandemic, and the Gospel. (May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hamilton, Nick
• Is Part Of: Review and expositor. Volume 119:Number 1/2(2022)
• Page Start: 132
• Page End: 137
• Publication Date: 2022-05
• Subjects: church -- COVID-19 -- culture wars -- Maze Runner -- utilitarian ethics; Baptists -- Periodicals; Theology -- Periodicals; 286
• DOI: 10.1177/00346373221137054
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-6373

Abstract

The Maze Runner book series and movie trilogy is set in the future, when ecological disaster and a global pandemic strike. Many children and young adults are immune to the disease and are therefore quarantined, studied, and used to develop a cure for the "flare." This article examines some of the ethical frameworks experienced in the COVID-19 pandemic using the Maze Runner movies as illustrations. It also examines contemporary culture and proposes that a more robust gospel witness is needed to better deal with future global pandemics.