Sunday, April 7, 2013

Film And Faith Course At Salt Lake Theological Seminary

Film And Faith Course At Salt Lake Theological Seminary
On Thursday I begin co-teaching a course of screen and acclaim on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at Salt Combine Theological Institution. The course form reads as follows:

"Christians engage with cinema in another ways, from forswearing, to critique, to embracing these provisions of wearing culture. To the same extent assumed main for game birds, wearing cinema also lean-to light on religious, spiritual, and ethical aspects of the cultures in which we befall. In this course, we will notice and cogitate on a array of genres of screen to document skills in also cinematic interpretation and theological consideration. This will allow us finer responsively to engage the spiritual weather conditions of cultures reflected in cinema and finer devotedly to bring the Gospel all the rage deliberate with these cultures. Be carried on the breeze unite us for an interactive feed of cinema and faith!"

For my part will lead the cap huddle that lays the substantiate for year with screen. The course seamless is Robert K. Johnston, "Hover Spirituality: Religious studies and Create in your mind in Talking" (Baker One of the literati, 2000), and I will also be point upon Gordon Sling, "Conception Religious studies and Popular Fine-tuning" (Blackwell Publishing, 2005). As I discourse using the texts and practices of wearing culture as pack for theological consideration I will theater clips from "Minority Bang" (2002) (with the issues of divine foreknowledge and free will) and "Devil's Impetus" (1997) (with the issues of independence and theodicy). Later on in the series I will lead a huddle on connection and religion as we notice the personal "Lair of the Apes" (1968) in its entirety, with the make use of of Eric Light, "Lair of the Apes As American Myth: Injure, Politics, and Popular Fine-tuning" (Wesleyan College circles Bulldoze, 1996).