How Movies Helped Save My Soul
Gareth Higgins
Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films. Is there more to going to the movies than just mindless entertainment? Author Gareth Higgins, avid moviegoer and film critic, says there is. How Movies Helped Save My Soul is a guidebook for looking at films and finding hidden spiritual truths. With chapters on fear, God, justice, love, power, and more, Higgins teaches how to make sense of the spiritual by looking at films with a new perspective. From The Matrix to Magnolia, Fight Club to Field of Dreams, Higgins takes the reader through more than 200 films that, if looked at the right way, just might change lives. Movie buffs and novices alike will find much to enjoy, provoke, amuse, challenge and confound in How Movies Helped Save My Soul.
"The Bible tells us that if we fail to declare God’s gospel, ‘the very rocks will cry out’ the message. Gareth Higgins picks up that theme and finds messages in moving pictures that God wants us to hear messages that are either seldom heard from church pulpits or, when preached, expressed with insufficient drama. This book is most definitely worth the time you take to read it."
— Tony Campolo, Ph.D., author and speaker
Contents: 01) Dr. Higgins’ Rosetta Stone 02) Anti-Heroes/ The Guys We Love To Hate 03) Brokenness/ In Our Weakness We Are Strong 04) Conspiracy/ It’s Not Paranoia If They’re Really Out To Get You 05) Death/ All Good Things Must Come To An End 06) Community/ Home Is Where The Heart Is, Or Is The Nuclear Family Just A Timebomb Waiting To Explode? 07) Fear/ Things That Go Bump In The Night 08) God 09) Justice/ We May Be Through With The Past, But The Past Ain’t Through With Us 10) All You Need Is Love 11) 1968-1975, America 12) Quest/ The Journey Is The Destination 13) Outsiders/ I Really Do Have Love To Give; I Just Don’t Know Where To Put It 14) Power/ Real Power Cannot Be Given, It Must Be Taken 15) War/ What It Is Good For? 16) The Matrix/ The Answer Will Find You 17) Conclusion/ And So We End Where We Begin
"The Bible tells us that if we fail to declare God’s gospel, ‘the very rocks will cry out’ the message. Gareth Higgins picks up that theme and finds messages in moving pictures that God wants us to hear messages that are either seldom heard from church pulpits or, when preached, expressed with insufficient drama. This book is most definitely worth the time you take to read it."
— Tony Campolo, Ph.D., author and speaker
Contents: 01) Dr. Higgins’ Rosetta Stone 02) Anti-Heroes/ The Guys We Love To Hate 03) Brokenness/ In Our Weakness We Are Strong 04) Conspiracy/ It’s Not Paranoia If They’re Really Out To Get You 05) Death/ All Good Things Must Come To An End 06) Community/ Home Is Where The Heart Is, Or Is The Nuclear Family Just A Timebomb Waiting To Explode? 07) Fear/ Things That Go Bump In The Night 08) God 09) Justice/ We May Be Through With The Past, But The Past Ain’t Through With Us 10) All You Need Is Love 11) 1968-1975, America 12) Quest/ The Journey Is The Destination 13) Outsiders/ I Really Do Have Love To Give; I Just Don’t Know Where To Put It 14) Power/ Real Power Cannot Be Given, It Must Be Taken 15) War/ What It Is Good For? 16) The Matrix/ The Answer Will Find You 17) Conclusion/ And So We End Where We Begin
ISBN: 9780971457690
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: CHARISMA HOUSE - published 15/02/2004
Format: Paperback
£10.99