Last night, I saw the Hughes Brothers’ new movie The Book of Eli. It’s been getting mixed reviews, and I honestly did not expect to like it very much.
I loved it. And now I desperately want to talk to people about it.
The problem is that the movie’s best kept secret (at least I didn’t know [...]
Tags: Abram, End of history, genesis, Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, science fiction, The Book of Eli
What, exactly, does a theologian as theologian have to say about films? Or, really, about popular narrative altogether? There is a need to ask this question, because “theological criticism” is frequently attempted — not least by myself over the history of this blog, with varying success — but infrequently considered on its own, as a [...]
Tags: An und fur Sich, avatar, baptism, Bible, biblical narrative, Christ, christ figures in film, Church, Creation, Criticism, culture, discourse, Israel, liberation, life, methodology, mythology, Narrative, old testament, old testament theology, Rhetoric, ross douthat, theologian, theologians, Theological Criticism, Theology, theology and film, Walter Bruegemann, watership down, witness
I couldn’t agree more with Adam Kotsko’s thought re: the film Avatar in which he observes that critiques like that of Ross Douthat, which simply locate the film as one more instance of Hollywood pantheism, have little value either as commentaries on the text of the film or as cultural critique. Rather, the primary religious [...]
Tags: adam kotsko, allusion, avatar, cradles, dead human body, duality, Incarnation, painters, pieta, religious theme, ross douthat, sully
When on Saturday I found myself ensconced between two rows of bawling children to watch the newest Pixar animation, a small moleskin open on my knee for notes, and a delicious tingle of anticipation all out of proportion to my age causing me to shift my weight back and forth, I suddenly wondered if there [...]
Tags: christian critics, communism, Community, eschatological, fredricksen, mainstream films, married life, pixar animation, sensibilities, successful marriage
His face is so customarily unchanging that the very slight strain at the edges of his lips immediately alerts the two strangers who have been his family that something terrible has happened.
He walks toward them, toward the church, with his usual slow step, as if he were pushing his way through the secrets that have [...]
Tags: Angelina Jolie, CIA, edward wilson, Family, Gospel, Identity, loyalty, Matt Damon, Patriotism, Robert De Niro, The Good Shepherd
