The Fiery Serpent: A Christian Theory of Film and TheaterPAUL KURITZ, 2006 - 196 pàgines What is the true purpose of the arts? Using Shakespeare's Hamlet and Kazan's On the Waterfront as examples, The Fiery Serpent sets the standard for film and theater that reflects the model God put forth in creation. |
Continguts
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37 | |
The Material Cause of | 71 |
The Efficient Cause of | 101 |
The Final Cause of | 119 |
The Working Christian | 143 |
Endnotes Index | 171 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 37 - In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Pàgina xiv - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being, My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.
Pàgina 76 - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Pàgina 37 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.
Pàgina 146 - You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Pàgina 130 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Pàgina 75 - If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest.
Pàgina 116 - The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Pàgina 160 - In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.