Mel Gibson's Passion and Philosophy : The Cross, the Questions, the Controverssy.
Title:
Mel Gibson's Passion and Philosophy : The Cross, the Questions, the Controverssy.
Author:
Gracia, Jorge J. E.
ISBN:
9780812698121
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (203 pages)
Series:
Popular Culture and Philosophy
Contents:
Contents -- Preface: Philosophy Confronts The Passion -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Who Do You Say that I Am? Mel Gibson's Christ -- I. DID CHRIST HAVE TO SUFFER VIOLENTLY? -- 2. Seeing the World Made New: Depictions of the Passion and Christian Life -- 3. Christ's Atonement: Washing Away Human Sin -- 4. The Focus of The Passion Puts the Person of Jesus Out of Focus -- 5. Gibson's Sublime Passion: In Defense of the Violence -- 6. God and Man Separated No More: Hegel Overcomes the Unhappy Conscoiusness of Gibson's Christianity -- II. IS THE PASSION ANTI-SEMITIC? -- 7. Passions of the Christ: Do Jews and Christians See the Same Film? -- 8. The Passion as a Political Weapon: Anti-Semitism and Gibson's Use of the Gospels -- 9. Is the Passion of the Christ Racist? Due Process, Responsibility, and Punishment -- 10. The Passion of the Jew: Jesus in the Jewish Mystical Tradition -- III. WHAT IS THE TRUTH? -- 11. Pilate's Question: What Is Truth? -- 12. How Can We Know What God Truly Means? Gibson's Take on Scripture -- 13. The Women Who Loved Jesus: Suffering and the Traditional Feminine Role -- IV. WHY WAS CHRIST KILLED? -- 14. The Craftiness of Christ: Wisdom of the Hidden God -- 15. The Death of Socrates and the Death of Christ -- 16. Dances of Death: Self-Sacrifice and Atonement -- 17. The Crisis of the Cross: God as Scandalous -- V. WHO IS MORALLY RESPONSIBLE? -- 18. Christ's Choice: Could It Have Been Different? -- 19. Forgiving Judas: Extenuating Circumstances in the Ultimate Betrayal -- 20. Resist Not Evil! Jesus and Nonviolence -- About the Authors -- Index.
Abstract:
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ has become one of the most controversial films ever made, and it is already a blockbuster of cinematography. Its defenders passionately regard it as one of the most moving and influential pieces of religious art ever created. But its detractors argue with comparable vehemence that the violence and gore it contains, its alleged anti-Semitism, a particular take on the Christian message, and the lack of historical and Biblical accuracy, make it nothing more than a kind of political propaganda. Father Thomas Rosica hailed as one of the great masterpieces of religious art, but the secular humanist Paul Kurtz thinks of it as a political weapon in the hands of the religious right. Film critics are divided in their judgment, giving the film anywhere from no stars to five stars. Regardless of what one thinks of the film, however, its impact both personal and social is beyond question.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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