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  • The (Christian?) Movie Formula

    This was all over the web a few weeks ago (I got it here). I think I even tumbl’d it myself. I find it interesting because it correlates with a sub-point of my thesis. It may just be me, but when I see this chart, I see an analog trinity (lowercase “t”), who in the face of…

  • The Tipping Point and The Imago Dei

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] A couple of weeks ago I read Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. I’m not entirely sure where I first heard of Gladwell, but Tim Challies gives him a solid recommendation in The Next Story so maybe that was what did it for me. Regardless, Gladwell…

  • A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

    For those who read this blog regularly (both of you), I’m going to assume you’ve probably never heard of Chuck Klosterman (unless it was from a list on here). You probably didn’t read Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, and so by extension you probably didn’t have any interest to read Eating…

  • The Next Story

    Author I was first introduced to Tim Challies, like many people, through reading his blog. While not specifically a technology guru, Tim does web consulting and has been blogging and using the latest and greatest tech devices for a while now. He has clearly spent a good amount of time thinking reflectively about it, and…

  • Interpreting Myself Interpreting Inception

    In both his recent book on language and his just released book on sociology, Vern Poythress makes an Inception like argument for the ultimate context of human activity. As we all probably remember from Inception, the storyline culminates in a heist that takes place inside a dream, within a dream, within a dream. Whether or…

  • Christianity and Literature

    [This review is part of the Christian Worldview Integration Series] Authors David Lyle Jeffrey is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He is also a lifelong evangelical Protestant Christian with deep, equally abiding Catholic sympathies. Gregory Maillet is professor of English at Crandall University in Moncton, Canada.…

  • Inception within Inception

    Was it just a dream? Or did it all really happen? Had he finally made it home? These questions haunt us at the end of Inception. The main character Cobb appears to have made it home, but ominously, the top he left spinning on the table doesn’t appear to fall over. We learn earlier in…

  • Triperspectivalism and the Movies (D)

    [This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] I almost forget we hadn’t finished this mini-series (within a series). This is the last post though, picking up from where the one before left off, which was a brief discussion of “story” as it relates to movies. Here we go… Worldview Worldviews are, to perhaps over…

  • Triperspectivalism and the Movies (C)

    [This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] If you need to, see the previous post before digging into this one. At this point, we’re finally turning to the focus to actual film analysis. From an overall Christian theological perspective, a triperspectival analysis would entail: (1) a normative perspective looking at how film functions as…

  • Triperspectivalism and the Movies (B)

    [This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] Yesterday, I started working through presenting the content of my ETS paper on here. I summarized the basic foundation of John Frame’s general perspectivalism, and so today we can refine that a bit further and flesh out what triperspectivalism involves. Then, we can apply it to film studies.