Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film

by Graham Holderness

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472573315
• ISBN13: 9781472573315
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"