What is Man... When the Horizon of Grace is Obscured? The lessons of the film Noah
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses
2019 – 1, 99e année, n° 1. Qu’est-ce que la vérité ? Hommage à André Birmelé - Author: Parmentier (Élisabeth)
- Pages: 147 to 159
- Journal: Journal of Religious History and Philosophy
This article analyses the film Noah as an effective revealer of humanity as simul peccator et justus. The film shows how an ordinary man becomes inhuman not through vice but through zeal to make himself the defender of divine truth. Noah experiences the torments of the Apostle Paul (Romans 7), as do many of today’s fanatics, who in God’s absence readily become God’s substitute. But human truth is fallibility, an insurance against fanaticism and inhumanity.
- CLIL theme: 4046 -- RELIGION -- Christianisme -- Théologie
- ISBN: 978-2-406-09199-8
- EAN: 9782406091998
- ISSN: 2269-479X
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09199-8.p.0147
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 04-24-2019
- Periodicity: Quarterly
- Language: French
- Keyword: Film Noah, truth, Paul, fallibility, fanaticism, inhumanity
