The collar : reading Christian ministry in fiction, television, and film / Sue Sorensen ; with a foreword by William H. Willimon.
2014
809.9338253 S713c 2014
Available at 2nd (Main) Floor
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Title
The collar : reading Christian ministry in fiction, television, and film / Sue Sorensen ; with a foreword by William H. Willimon.
Author
ISBN
9781625642486 (pbk.)
1625642482 (pbk.)
1625642482 (pbk.)
Published
Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2014]
Language
English
Description
xi, 306 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
809.9338253 S713c 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)881449516
(OCoLC)881449516
(OCoLC)881449516
Summary
Combining thematic analysis and stimulating close readings, The Collar is a wide-ranging study of the many ways--heroic or comic, shrewd or dastardly--Christian ministers have been represented in literature and film. Since all Christians are expected to be involved in ministry of some type, the assumptions of secular culture about ministers affect more than just clergy. Ranging across several nations (particularly the U. S. Britain, and Canada), denominations, and centuries, The Collar aims to encourage creative and faithful responses to the challenges of Christian leadership and to provoke awareness of the times when leadership expectations become too extreme. Using the framework of novels, plays, TV, and movies to make inquiries about pastoral passion, frustration, and fallibility, Sue Sorensen's well-informed, sprightly, and perceptive book will be helpful to pastors, parishioners, those interested in practical theology, and anyone who enjoys evocative literature and film. -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
Prelude: Why literary ministers?
Interlude: "The Collar" by George Herbert
Heroism and suffering: "Romeo," "The Mission," "Becket," "Murder in the Cathedral," "The Power of the Glory," "Gilead"
Interlude: "Diary of a Country Priest" by Georges Bernanos
The counselor/confessor: George Eliot, E.M. Forster, A.S. Byatt
Interlude: Scenes of clerical life by George Eliot
Fools for Christ: "Tristam Shandry," "The vicar of Wakefield," "Bleak House," "The Warden," "Monsignor Quixote," "Heavens Above!," Rowan Atikinson's vicars
Interlude: Barbara Pym and Jan Karon
The Collard detective: Brother Cadfael mysteries, Father Brown stories, "The Name of the Rose"
Interlude: "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton
Passion, for better and for worse: "The Scarlet Letter," "The Crucible," "Racing Demon," "Priest"
Interlude: "The Book Against God," a novel by James Wood
Failure for worse and for better: "Jane Eyre," "Middlemarch," Margaret Oliphant, Jane Austen, John Updike, Clint Eastwood
Interlude: "Doubt, a Parable" by John Patrick Shanley
Disaster: "A portrait of the artist as a young man," "Brand," "The Spire," "Light of August," "Rain"
Interlude: "Pale Rider," directed by Clint Eastwood
Frustration: The Collar on Screen: "The Thord Birds," "Footloose," "7th Heaven," "Keeping the Faith," "The Vicar of Dibley," "Rev."
Interlude: The Bing Crosby and Richard Burton movie priests
Clergy wives and daughters: The concealed collar: "A Clergyman's Daughter," "Bed among the lentils," "The rector's wife," "Candida"
Interlude: "The Bell" by Iris Murdoch
The Canadian Collar: "The stone angel," "Such is my beloved," "As for me and my house," "Good to a fault," Robertson Davies, Ralph Connor, Stephen Leacock, Warren Cariou
Interlude: "Lights and Shadows of Clerical Life" by William Cheetham
Postlude: "Corpus permixtum."
Interlude: "The Collar" by George Herbert
Heroism and suffering: "Romeo," "The Mission," "Becket," "Murder in the Cathedral," "The Power of the Glory," "Gilead"
Interlude: "Diary of a Country Priest" by Georges Bernanos
The counselor/confessor: George Eliot, E.M. Forster, A.S. Byatt
Interlude: Scenes of clerical life by George Eliot
Fools for Christ: "Tristam Shandry," "The vicar of Wakefield," "Bleak House," "The Warden," "Monsignor Quixote," "Heavens Above!," Rowan Atikinson's vicars
Interlude: Barbara Pym and Jan Karon
The Collard detective: Brother Cadfael mysteries, Father Brown stories, "The Name of the Rose"
Interlude: "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton
Passion, for better and for worse: "The Scarlet Letter," "The Crucible," "Racing Demon," "Priest"
Interlude: "The Book Against God," a novel by James Wood
Failure for worse and for better: "Jane Eyre," "Middlemarch," Margaret Oliphant, Jane Austen, John Updike, Clint Eastwood
Interlude: "Doubt, a Parable" by John Patrick Shanley
Disaster: "A portrait of the artist as a young man," "Brand," "The Spire," "Light of August," "Rain"
Interlude: "Pale Rider," directed by Clint Eastwood
Frustration: The Collar on Screen: "The Thord Birds," "Footloose," "7th Heaven," "Keeping the Faith," "The Vicar of Dibley," "Rev."
Interlude: The Bing Crosby and Richard Burton movie priests
Clergy wives and daughters: The concealed collar: "A Clergyman's Daughter," "Bed among the lentils," "The rector's wife," "Candida"
Interlude: "The Bell" by Iris Murdoch
The Canadian Collar: "The stone angel," "Such is my beloved," "As for me and my house," "Good to a fault," Robertson Davies, Ralph Connor, Stephen Leacock, Warren Cariou
Interlude: "Lights and Shadows of Clerical Life" by William Cheetham
Postlude: "Corpus permixtum."
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