God in the Movies: A Guide for Exploring Four Decades of Film

This informative guide helps readers combine their love of movies with their desire to grow closer to God. Foremost experts on faith and film, all connected with the Reel Spirituality Institute at Fuller Seminary, explore forty leading movies from the last four decades to encourage movie lovers and small groups to reflect critically and theologically on their film choices. God in the Movies introduces and analyzes the spiritual content of top films from the 1980s through the 2010s, opening viewers up to a conversation about life, faith, and God.

Following a format similar to Barsotti and Johnston's successful Finding God in the Movies, this completely new book covers different films spanning four decades. This engaging resource contains production notes and film synopses, relevant Scripture texts, theological reflection, discussion questions, film stills, recommended film clips, and more, serving as a treasure chest for hours of film viewing, discussion, and ministry. Clips from the movies referenced in each chapter are available online.

• Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue (Engaging Culture)
• Film Studies: The Basics
• Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film
• Making Movies Work: Thinking Like a Filmmaker
• Reframing Theology and Film: New Focus for an Emerging Discipline (Cultural Exegesis)
• Finding God in the Movies: 33 Films of Reel Faith
• What the New Testament Authors Really Cared About: A Survey of Their Writings
• A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey
• God's Wider Presence: Reconsidering General Revelation
• Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century (Cultural Exegesis)