"Who Do You Say That I Am?'": Identity and Discipleship in The Last Supper and the Gospel of Mark
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's film The Last Supper presents multiple characters as Christ-figures in events on an eighteenth-century Cuban sugar plantation in order to show the moral bankruptcy of Christianity's images of the "dolorous Christ" and the "celestial monarch Christ.&quo...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2006]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2006, Volume: 14, Issue: 1 |
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| Summary: | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's film The Last Supper presents multiple characters as Christ-figures in events on an eighteenth-century Cuban sugar plantation in order to show the moral bankruptcy of Christianity's images of the "dolorous Christ" and the "celestial monarch Christ." Created no more than two decades after the Cuban revolution, the film fosters the revolutionary spirit for cultural decolonization and resistance to imperialist endeavors. For Christians who evoke Jesus as a model of discipleship, the film draws attention not only to the interpretive nature of discipleship, but also the importance of critically analyzing any image of Jesus for being life-giving or oppressive as a model. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.14.1.004 |