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Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film

Kansas City: Sheed & Ward (1997), 337 pp.

Contains illustrations, bibliogr. pp. 309-330, index

Reviewed in: Media Development 1/98; Comunicatio Socialis 1998

Signature commbox: 50-Religion-E 1997

The book is divided into two parts - the films which depict Jesus and those films in which Jesus becomes a metaphoric Christ-figure [...] It is a good reading, extremely well researched, and for the most part clear about its own limitations.