Novel (& Reel) Theology |
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Literature shapes our understanding of ideas like love, compassion, forgiveness, redemption; in other words, those markers we encounter in following Christ. This year we will mix novels with movies and occasional non-fiction.
Novel Theology discussions are open to anyone who has read the book or seen the movie. Invite your friends.
Books are available at Morgan Hill Bookstore at a 15% discount. Movies available from Tracy Library sometimes and the office sometimes and for rent on-line. We meet on the second Wednesday of the month at 7 PM.
Novel Theology discussions are open to anyone who has read the book or seen the movie. Invite your friends.
Books are available at Morgan Hill Bookstore at a 15% discount. Movies available from Tracy Library sometimes and the office sometimes and for rent on-line. We meet on the second Wednesday of the month at 7 PM.
Have a Lent and Easter break. Program resumes in June.
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Spring Summer Fall Winter . . . and Spring
A 2004 Korean film that won the Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Film, Grand Bell Award for Best Film, and a Blue Dragon Film Award Technical Award. "A young Buddhist apprentice is mentored by an aging monk at a monastery in the Korean wilderness. As a teenager, the apprentice encounters a girl who arrives at the monastery seeking assistance with her health. Over the course of a few days, the boy is tempted away from his spiritual existence into a sexual relationship. He leaves the monastery to follow the girl into a modern way of life he has never known and is unprepared for." Wednesday 12 June at 7:00 pm. |
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No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy Drug running on the Texas-Mexico border . . . "McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines." Wednesday 19 July at 7:00 pm. |
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
The 1965 film directed by Carol Reed, based on the biographical novel by Irving Stone. The story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II. Wednesday 14 August at 7:00 pm. |
Some books and films discussed previously:
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
- Plainsong by Kent Haruf
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- Lila by Marilynne Robinson
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok