Films and theology

I thought I'd share a bit of my conclusion to the second part of the essay I've attempted... I found out after the PFG that the second part is purely an analysis of the film I'd chosen and not linked with young people at all. Result!

Anyway, I was reading some passages on C.S Lewis the other day and came across a study guide of the Narnia books, and inspired decided to reread the 'Silver Chair' - the best one, no arguments. And towards the end of the book (pg 159 to be exact) I came across this and thought it fitted quite well (you can disagree obviously)...

To summarise, in the ‘Silver Chair,’ two children are transported to the Green Witch’s falsely empirical and bounded universe. They go on to challenge the Green Witches realism

‘Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important that the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing… Four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow.’

I believe that films begin to challenge that ‘black pit of a Kingdom’ which rationality and materialism assume to be the only possible one we can encounter. Film remains a hint and a guess, but these should not be disparaged, and picked well, film provides the occasion for views to experience common grace.

Discuss...

baptism prep

someone was asking for baptism prep material think it was Ben this site has some stuff that may be good as a starting point but needs padding out a bit there is some other good stuff on the site aswell

http://www.youthworker.org/

The onion model of culture

The Onion model of Cuture and information for the Culture essay.
It's a downloadable PDF so its a look and keep!


I found this quite helpful and thought you all might want a look.