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Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film (Paperback)
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Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film (Paperback)
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At the heart of Christian theology lies a paradox unintelligible to
other religions and to secular humanism: that in the person of
Jesus, God became man, and suffered on the cross to effect
humanity's salvation. In his dual nature as mortal and divinity,
and unlike the impassable God of other monotheisms, Christ thus
became accessible to artistic representation. Hence the figure of
Jesus has haunted and compelled the imagination of artists and
writers for 2,000 years. This was never more so than in the 20th
Century, in a supposedly secular age, when the Jesus of popular
fiction and film became perhaps more familiar than the Christ of
the New Testament. In Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century
Fiction and Film Graham Holderness explores how writers and
film-makers have sought to recreate Christ in work as diverse as
Anthony Burgess's Man of Nazareth and Jim Crace's Quarantine, to
Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ and Mel Gibson's
Passion of the Christ. These works are set within a longer and
broader history of 'Jesus novels' and 'Jesus films', a lineage
traced back to Ernest Renan and George Moore, and explored both for
their reflections of contemporary Christological debates, and their
positive contributions to Christian theology. In its final chapter,
the book draws on the insights of this tradition of Christological
representation to creatively construct a new life of Christ, an
original work of theological fiction that both subsumes the history
of the form, and offers a startlingly new perspective on the
biography of Christ.
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