December 4, 2013 / Filmwell
“As we contemplate the world converted into a huge machine and managed by engineers, we …
“As we contemplate the world converted into a huge machine and managed by engineers, we …
D. S. Martin’s “Extrapolations” considers what lies beyond our immediate perceptions and wonders if unseen wonder lies beneath the surface of our landscapes.
Jeff Keuss discusses the hit TV series *Lost*, including its finale, in light of Augustine’s concepts of love and creation.
Jacques Tourneur’s last journey into the fantastique genre is saturated with dialogue that goes straight to the heart of his favourite and most fascinating questions, evoking Charles Williams and even C.S. Lewis. Problem is, the narrative deck is stacked from the outset, so there’s no room for the sort of ambiguity and psychological suspense that make Tourneur’s earlier supernatural thrillers so effective.
This essay reflects on CS Lewis’s CHRONICLES OF NARNIA in light of the Arthurian quest for the Grail to show how a recovery of “life as narrative” can provide direction, release, and integration in faith formation toward an articulation of our lives as things of beauty, what Keuss refers to as “the life poetic.”
A look into the poetic imaginary of Charles Williams, showing how creation is made for divine Incarnation.