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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Top 50 Religious Films

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Here is the Church Times' list of the top 50 religious films (PDF).

HT: ThinkChristian

posted by JT at Thursday, April 26, 2007


4 Comments:

Blogger Stephen Roberson said...

Is this serious?

4/26/2007 10:38:00 PM  
Blogger Cap Stewart said...

An interesting list.

I was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of Signs, and unpleasantly surprised that The Last Temptation of Christ was considered the fourth best film—and, to add insult to injury, several spots ahead of The Passion of the Christ. Part of their explanation: “This is a long way from the piety of Ben-Hur, but its understanding of what it cost Christ to fulfil his mission glorifies rather than belittles him.” Balderdash!

In the words of film critic Steven D. Greydanus:

“A Jesus who commits sins — who even thinks he commits sins, who talks a great deal about needing ‘forgiveness’ and paying with his life for his own sins; a Jesus who himself speaks blasphemy and idolatry, calling fear his ‘god’ and talking about being motivated more by fear than by love; who has an ambivalent at best relationship with the Father, even trying to merit divine hatred so that God will leave him alone — all of this is utterly antithetical to Christian belief and sentiment. This is not merely focusing on Jesus’ humanity, this is effectively contradicting his divinity.”

4/27/2007 06:42:00 AM  
Blogger metanoia said...

I appreciated the list of films. These are categorized as "religious" films, not Christian films.

I would have included "The Truman Show" with it's interesting take on the issues of predestination and free will.

Thanks for the link.

4/29/2007 03:33:00 PM  
Blogger jc said...

JT, Link doesn't work anymore.

5/04/2007 09:12:00 PM  

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