The Devil as Doppelganger: Instinctual Faith and the Exhausted Rant of Evil in LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT (US 2015)

LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT (Rodrigo García, US 2015) portrays the devil as Jesus’s doppelganger, demonstrating the rivalry between good and evil as the two compete over the efficacy of Jesus’s faith. With Jesus assessing himself as he responds to the devil, the film offers a self-reflexive evaluation o...

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Main Author: Yergensen, Brent (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Institut f. Fundamentaltheologie 2023
In: Journal for religion, film and media
Year: 2023, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 157-171
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Last days in the desert / Jesus Christ / Faith (Motif) / Devil (Motif) / Religious doubt (motif) (Motif) / Evolutionism / Faith / Instinct
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
CB Christian life; spirituality
CD Christianity and Culture
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBF Christology
NBH Angelology; demonology
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B Doppelganger
B Instinctual Faith
B Jesus
B Devil
B Skepticism
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