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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... sort of religious experience . They're stories , some better told than others , and many of them are going to lack an easy moral or be “ morally problematic . ” That's why they require interpretation and our own engagement in the ...
... sort of religious experience . They're stories , some better told than others , and many of them are going to lack an easy moral or be “ morally problematic . ” That's why they require interpretation and our own engagement in the ...
Pagina 3
... sort of God ? By talking about some movies that suggest divine mechanisms behind the curtain of our reality or that take seeking , belief , or faith in a higher power as their subjects , we can see how they can be useful for us in our ...
... sort of God ? By talking about some movies that suggest divine mechanisms behind the curtain of our reality or that take seeking , belief , or faith in a higher power as their subjects , we can see how they can be useful for us in our ...
Pagina 5
... sort of unmoved mover that Aristotle imagined might be at the heart of all things. But all of these films turn our eyes beyond this reality to what might lie beyond and above it, and in doing so inspire us to believe. The Supernatural ...
... sort of unmoved mover that Aristotle imagined might be at the heart of all things. But all of these films turn our eyes beyond this reality to what might lie beyond and above it, and in doing so inspire us to believe. The Supernatural ...
Pagina 11
... sort of impending financial ruin that brought George Bai- ley to the brink of suicide , but Ray never breaks faith with the voice because a series of miracles convince him that there must be a beneficent order to his universe that he ...
... sort of impending financial ruin that brought George Bai- ley to the brink of suicide , but Ray never breaks faith with the voice because a series of miracles convince him that there must be a beneficent order to his universe that he ...
Pagina 13
... sort : God sends an angel down to stop a potential suicide , long- dead ballplayers show up on your front lawn — those are hard to ignore . But as Jules tells Vincent , miracles come in all shapes and sizes , and they don't necessarily ...
... sort : God sends an angel down to stop a potential suicide , long- dead ballplayers show up on your front lawn — those are hard to ignore . But as Jules tells Vincent , miracles come in all shapes and sizes , and they don't necessarily ...
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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.