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The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Harry Potter. By John Killinger. (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2010, Pp., 164. $17.00, paper.)
The comparisons of Harry Potter and his escapades in the seven-book series to the Christian faith are not new. Even author J. K. Rowling acknowledged in an October 2007 interview that her books deal extensively with Christian themes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone begins with the premise that love can save you from death, ending Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows with a proclamation that a sacrifice in the name of love can bring you back from death. In The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Harry Potter, John Killinger wotdd have us believe he is the first one to make the...