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« Who Will Run the Internet? | Main | Taxpayers Bill of Rights Update » March 9, 2004The Saving Grace of Schindler, Ryan and The PassionRecommendation: Read Donald Sensing's excellent Sunday essay, which he titled The violence of redemption and the redemption of violence: The unifying themes of The Passion of the Christ, Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List . A long title for a long essay that is well worth your time. He examines the theme of grace in each movie. Three movies - Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, The Passion of the Christ - are all stories of explicit violence, undeserved suffering and deaths taking place in violent times. And all three leave viewers pondering the same basic question: What do I do now? As Jesus' bloody, dead body is lowered from the cross into his mother's arms, she faces the camera - you the viewer - and fixes a penetrating stare on you, confronting you with the body of Christ, broken for you, the blood of Christ, shed for you. ... Christ's suffering was great. The fact compels us to ask whether our Lord so painfully lay down his life just so we can live the way we are living. God's grace is free, but God forbid we ever think it cheap. We were, wrote Saint Paul, bought at a price.Here's a copy of an essay I wrote for the August 5, 1998, edition of LoveLines, the weekly newsletter from The Family of God at Woodmont Hills, titled Private Ryan's Saving Grace. Posted in Religion
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