Mel Gibson's Passion and Philosophy The Cross, the Questions, the Controversy

Name: Mel Gibson's Passion and Philosophy The Cross, the Questions, the Controversy
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ISBN: 9780812695717

ISBN-10: 0812695712

ISBN-13: 9780812695717

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jorge J. E. Gracia, William Irwin

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Publication date: 10/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 225
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface: Philosophy Confronts The Passion


Acknowledgments



Who Do You Say That I Am? Mel Gibson's Christ




Did Christ Have to Suffer Violently?



Seeing the World Made New: Depictions of the Passion and Christian Life




Christ's Atonement: Washing Away Human Sin




The Focus of The Passion Puts the Person of Jesus Out of Focus




Gibson's Sublime Passion: In Defense of the Violence




God and Man Separated No More: Hegel Overcomes the Unhappy Consciousness of Gibson's Christianity




Is The Passion Anti-Semitic?



Passions of the Christ: Do Jews and Christians See the Same Film?




The Passion as a Political Weapon: Anti-Semitism and Gibson's Use of the Gospels




Is The Passion of the Christ Racist? Due Process, Responsibility, and Punishment




The Passion of the Jew: Jesus in the Jewish Mystical Tradition




What Is the Truth?



Pilate's Question: What Is Truth?




How Can We Know What God Truly Means? Gibson's Take on Scripture




The Women Who Loved Jesus: Suffering and the Traditional Feminine Role




Why Was Christ Killed?



The Craftiness of Christ: Wisdom of the Hidden God




The Death of Socrates and the Death of Christ




Dances of Death: Self-Sacrifice and Atonement




The Crisis of the Cross: God as Scandalous




Who Is Morally Responsible?



Christ's Choice: Could It Have Been Different?




Forgiving Judas: Extenuating Circumstances in the Ultimate Betrayal




Resist Not Evil! Jesus and Nonviolence



About the Authors


Index