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How A Balanced Christian Message In Film Can Inspire Christ-Like Transformation, Makayla Marrin Jacobs
How A Balanced Christian Message In Film Can Inspire Christ-Like Transformation, Makayla Marrin Jacobs
Masters Theses
This thesis will attempt to examine the need for a balanced Christian message in film and how everyday acts of the Christian faith can inspire Christ-like transformation within society. This thesis will also explore the importance of developing faith and spiritual disciplines through the creative screenplay, All Hail the Hoodlums. Throughout history, living as a faithful Christian and practicing spiritual disciplines can appear to go directly against society’s natural flow as belief in a Creator oppose man’s selfishness and sinful nature. Seemingly, society at large currently projects that believing in a Monotheistic and Triune God and having a deep personal …
Theological Creative Nonfiction: Christian Literature For Christian Life, Elizabeth R. Hurt
Theological Creative Nonfiction: Christian Literature For Christian Life, Elizabeth R. Hurt
Senior Honors Theses
Since the Christian worldview is composed of more than theoretical truth, Christian literature should reflect these other aspects, such as how that truth is applied in the lives of the saints. Furthermore, the praxis element of worldview is reflected in literature more naturally in narrative genres than in more expository writings like systematic theology. Narrative genres mirror the complex, temporal way a person lives his life, and because of this are able to show how objective truth is applied in subjective situations. For this reason, Christians need contemporary writing that reflects the process of everyday Christian living to offer a …