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EBOOK Paul Tillich and the Possibility of Revelation through Film
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191633560
EAN: 248DC523EB
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Stron: 288
Data wydania: 2012
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Since the birth of cinema at the end of the nineteenth century religion and film        have been entwined. The Jesus-story and other religious narratives were the subject        matter of some of the earliest cinema productions and this relationship has        continued into the present. A recent proliferation of texts, conferences and courses        bear witness to burgeoning academic interest in the relation between religion and        film. In this study, Jonathan Brant explores the possibility that even filmslacking        religious subject matter might have a religious impact upon their viewers, the        possibility of revelation through film. The book begins with a reading of Paul        Tillich's theology of revelation through culture and continues with a qualitative        research project which grounds this theoretical accountin the experiences of a group        of filmgoers. The empirical research takes place in Latin America where the        intellectual puzzle and central research questions that drive the thesis arose and        developed.Brant combines theoretical and empirical research in order to provide        fresh insights into the way in which film functions and impacts its viewers and also        offers an unusual perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of Tillich's theology        of revelation, which is seen to focus on the saving and healing power of revelation        rather than its communicative content. The grounding of the theory by the empirical        data results in an increased appreciation of the sensitivity of Tillich's theology        to theuniqueness of each film-to-viewer encounter and the data also suggests a new        construal of the revelatory potential of film that is related to the community        rather than the individual and to sustained life-practice rather than momentary        experience. Brant reasons that Tillich's account is sensitive andcompelling        precisely because of its phenomenological attentiveness to real life experience,        notably Tillich's own experience, of the power of art. However, Brant also suggests        that it might be helpful to identify a stronger link than Tillich allows between the        subject matter of the artwork, the content of revelation and the effect of        revelation.

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