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Act One: Writing for Hollywood Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals Catholic Conference Movie Reviews Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture Journal for Religious and Cultural Theory
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Senior Theology Elective: Catholicism and Culture Purpose: To study the works of novelists and filmmakers whose imagery, narratives, and moral sensibility reflect a unique Catholic worldview. Philosophy: "Go forth now along the roads of the world, along the pathways of humanity, while remaining ever united in Christ's Church. Continue to contemplate God's glory and God's love, and you will receive the enlightenment needed to build the civilization of love, to help our brothers and sisters to see the world transfigured by God's eternal wisdom and love" (Pope John Paul II). The "real world" is the human universe that has been redeemed and transformed by the atoning death of the Son of God. The Church is not "here" and the "real world" there; the story of the Church is the world's story, rightly understood. This belief is what grounds the public ministry of our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, and directs his attention, as teacher and witness, to the realm of culture: that dimension of the human universe in which the self-understanding of individuals and peoples is formed and is transmitted to new generations. Because the Church is first and foremost evangelical, the Church must, in this post-Christian epoch, be the evangelizer of cultures. Format: Readings, cinema, discussion, lectures, seminars, field trips. Content: Exploration of the Catholic ideas of sacramentality (the presence of the sacred within the profane), mediation (God works in our lives through specific people and things), communion (salvation depends upon belonging to a community), and redemption (liberation from sin to a new life of freedom and grace through the sacrificial death of a Redeemer) found in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, John Ford, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Capra, and the writings of Jon Hassler, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, J.R. Tolkien, Joyce Kilmer, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Powers, Sigrid Undset, G.K. Chesterton, Ralph McInerney, George Bernanos, and William Barrett. Instructor: Fr. Ronald M. Vierling, M.F.C., M.A., M.Div.
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