Jesus and john wayne by kristin kobes du mez series#

In this episode we're kicking off a Summer series on Jesus films! Today we're joined by Matthew Page to talk about his new book, 100 Bible Films (published by The British Film Institute with Bloomsbury). John Anthony Dunne, Stephanie Kate Judd, and Rev. Team members on the episode from The Two Cities include: Dr. Walsh situates Jesus in the place of the “Monster” in horror films, which leads to some fascinating discussion. We also discuss this topic briefly in relation to iconoclastic concerns as well as Orthodox iconography. Walsh addresses some of the historic tensions behind depicting Jesus throughout cinematic history between depicting Jesus as more divine versus more human, more historically accurate versus more artistically resonant, more stoic versus more personable, etc. Other the course of our conversation, Dr. He’s also the author of a number of books on Jesus films, including Reading the Gospels in the Dark (Trinity Press International) and, more recently with Jeffrey Staley, Jesus, The Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination (T&T Clark). Richard Walsh, who is Womack Professor of Philosophy and Religion and the Co-Director of the Honors Program at Methodist University. In this episode of our Jesus film series, we turn to discuss the art and theology that informs depictions of Jesus with Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Brandon Hurlbert, Rev. Team members on the episode from The Two Cities: Dr.

Matthew (1964), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Arcand’s Jesus of Montreal (1989), and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004). Some of the Jesus films that we address at length include: Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Over the course of our conversation we discuss a number of aspects of Jesus films and how those relate to contemporary Gospels scholarship, including, the role of the imagination in historical reconstruction, the nature of Jesus’ self-understanding, first-century crucifixion, and the composition of the Gospels from earlier sources. Mark Goodacre, who is Frances Hill Fox professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, the author of a number of important studies on the historical Jesus, the Gospels, particularly the Synoptic Problem, and the Gospel of Thomas, and the creator of one of the original biblioblogs, called NTBlog, as well as one of the original biblical studies podcasts, called the NTPod.

(Jun.In this episode we discuss the relationship of scholarship on the Gospels and the historical Jesus with Dr. This lucid, potent history adds a much needed religious dimension to understanding the current American right and the rise of Trump. Persuasively arguing that the evangelical dismissal of Trump’s flaws is the culmination of believing that “God-given testosterone came with certain side effects,” Du Mez closes with a bruising chapter on recent evangelical leaders’ abuses and sex scandals, such as those involving Mark Driscoll, Ted Haggard, and C.J. The recent growth of homeschooling and Quiverfull (child-centric evangelical theology) and evangelicals’ suspicion of Obama are also explored. 9/11, she argues, revitalized the extreme warrior ideal for evangelical men and curtailed the softer patriarchy fostered by the Promise Keeper rallies of the 1990s. For Du Mez, the growth of Christian publishing and popular culture in the mid-century reinforced the sense that evangelicals were at war with liberal social movements like feminism and civil rights. Starting in the early 20th century, white Christian men followed charismatic preachers in striving for a muscular, militant masculinity. Historian Du Mez ( A New Gospel for Women) explains white evangelical support for Trump in this engaging history of the shifting ideal of Christian masculinity.