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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Pagina xiii
... violent and often vile film about gangsters , junkies , crooked boxers , armed robbers , and other folks who make up the unpleasant underbelly of the world , I was amazed to discover in each of the film's major stories the light of ...
... violent and often vile film about gangsters , junkies , crooked boxers , armed robbers , and other folks who make up the unpleasant underbelly of the world , I was amazed to discover in each of the film's major stories the light of ...
Pagina xvi
... violence in Unforgiven, in the sacrificial love displayed in Titanic, and in the scenes of divine intervention and inspired forgiveness that animate Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia. As this book shows, my spiritual journey has been ...
... violence in Unforgiven, in the sacrificial love displayed in Titanic, and in the scenes of divine intervention and inspired forgiveness that animate Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia. As this book shows, my spiritual journey has been ...
Pagina xx
... violence, or faithlessness. The same is true for popular culture. If something feels bad, then don't do it, and for goodness sake, don't let your kids do it. But in a world full of people who are starved for faith and con- nection to ...
... violence, or faithlessness. The same is true for popular culture. If something feels bad, then don't do it, and for goodness sake, don't let your kids do it. But in a world full of people who are starved for faith and con- nection to ...
Pagina xxii
... violence and war should never be Chris- tian solutions. In chapter 6, we'll look at the depictions of the church and con- temporary Christian belief in the movies, and we'll close with a discussion of what I perceive as a growing ...
... violence and war should never be Chris- tian solutions. In chapter 6, we'll look at the depictions of the church and con- temporary Christian belief in the movies, and we'll close with a discussion of what I perceive as a growing ...
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... violent wind , one of those white plastic bags that we might use to carry our tooth- paste or our milk , blowing around and around in a circle , but as Alan Ball describes it in his screenplay ( and director Sam Mendes shoots it ) it's ...
... violent wind , one of those white plastic bags that we might use to carry our tooth- paste or our milk , blowing around and around in a circle , but as Alan Ball describes it in his screenplay ( and director Sam Mendes shoots it ) it's ...
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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.