The Gospel According to HollywoodWestminster John Knox Press, 1 ian. 2007 - 173 pagini This book will thrill movie buffs and casual fans alike. In an engaging style, author Greg Garrett looks at the theological elements in dozens of classic and new classic Hollywood films, including a discussion about what the new openness to spirituality in the movies might mean for the future of American cinema and American religion. |
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Greg Garrett. About two thirds of the way through the film, for example, when Jules and his colleague Vincent (John Travolta) survive an attack at point-blank gunpoint, he rejects Vincent's judgment that they were simply lucky. No, he ...
Greg Garrett. About two thirds of the way through the film, for example, when Jules and his colleague Vincent (John Travolta) survive an attack at point-blank gunpoint, he rejects Vincent's judgment that they were simply lucky. No, he ...
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... example that many of these disgusting stories in the Bible provide—that we remem- ber, nor should we remember them. No one has ever suggested in my hearing that the Levite in Judges, for example, is a role model, even though his story ...
... example that many of these disgusting stories in the Bible provide—that we remem- ber, nor should we remember them. No one has ever suggested in my hearing that the Levite in Judges, for example, is a role model, even though his story ...
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... examples of autocratic producers like David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind) and directors like Cecil B. DeMille (The Ten Commandments), who lorded it over the people on their sets. On their sets, you never had to wonder if they existed ...
... examples of autocratic producers like David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind) and directors like Cecil B. DeMille (The Ten Commandments), who lorded it over the people on their sets. On their sets, you never had to wonder if they existed ...
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... example, in which the title archangel is played with lusty burping gusto by John Travolta, is about as bad as angel movies can get, suggesting that angels (even archangels, the upper management of the angelic host) have noth- ing better ...
... example, in which the title archangel is played with lusty burping gusto by John Travolta, is about as bad as angel movies can get, suggesting that angels (even archangels, the upper management of the angelic host) have noth- ing better ...
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... example , Vincent and Jules , the hit men played by John Tra- volta and Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction . As we saw in the introduction , when a junior gangster empties his gun at Vincent and Jules at point - blank range and they aren ...
... example , Vincent and Jules , the hit men played by John Tra- volta and Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction . As we saw in the introduction , when a junior gangster empties his gun at Vincent and Jules at point - blank range and they aren ...
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Pagina 114 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Pagina 18 - Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.
Pagina 110 - If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled", without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?
Pagina 154 - I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Pagina 111 - I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
Pagina 169 - I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
Pagina 92 - Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Pagina 36 - In the temple he found people selling cattle. sheep. and doves. and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords. he drove all of them out of the temple. both the sheep and the cattle.
Pagina 92 - For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.