Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century. By Craig Detweiler
Into the Dark, a contribution to the field of theology and film, focuses attention on Christian religious elements in a number of films from the 21st century. The theological starting point of the book is formed by Craig Detweiler's assumption that films can be a means of divine revelation. At...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Literature and theology
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 363-365 |
| Review of: | Into the dark (Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, 2008) (Vollmer, Ulrike)
Into the Dark (Grand Rapids : Baker Academic, 2008) (Vollmer, Ulrike) |
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| Summary: | Into the Dark, a contribution to the field of theology and film, focuses attention on Christian religious elements in a number of films from the 21st century. The theological starting point of the book is formed by Craig Detweiler's assumption that films can be a means of divine revelation. At the outset, he introduces the term ‘general revelation’ as a category that enables him to identify film as a possible location of the sacred. As Detweiler demonstrates convincingly, general revelation is a useful concept for theological studies of film because it opens up the possibility of experiencing the divine outside scripture in everyday life, emotions and language, as well as our senses of vision, touch and feeling. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frp025 |