Movie List - rel262 Intro to Christian Theology

3:10 to Yuma (Redemption)
A Beautiful Mind (Christology)
An Education (sin, redemption)
Almost Famous (community)
American Beauty (sin)
Atonement (atonement, duh!)
Avatar (creation, redemption)
Babel (sin)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (redemption)
Blade Runner (humanity)
Blue Like Jazz (community, redemption)
Changing Lanes (sin)
Children of Men (redemption)
Chocolat (Christology)
Constant Gardener (sin, redemption)
Donnie Darco (Christology, atonement)
Driving Lessons (salvation)
Easy A (redemption/redemptive suffering)
Elizabethtown (Christology, Restoration, Atonement)
Erin Brockovich (Christology, incarnation)
Everything is Illuminated (salvation)
Four Feathers (salvation, atonement)
Gattaca (humanity)
Gran Torino (Atonement)
Green Street Hooligans (sin, redemption)
High Fidelity (humanity, sin, salvation)
Jet Li’s Fearless (redemption, salvation)
Land Before Time (community)
Les Miserables (redemption)
Life as a House (salvation/atonement)
Mean Girls (work of Christ, pelagianism)
Millions (redemption)
North Country (redemption, salvation, liberation theology)
Once (Christology, redemption)
Prometheus (talk to me, this is only for the brave/crazy)
Sandlot (community)
School of Rock (Christology, community) Seven Pounds (Christology)
Smoke Signals (community, salvation)
Son of Rambow (Christology, salvation)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (incarnation, atonement)
The Descendants (salvation, redemption)
The Flowers of War (redemption)
The Hurricane (Christology)
The 5th Element (Christology, salvation)
The Big Kahuna (sin)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Community, Salvation)
The Tree of Life (sin, redemption, only for the brave/crazy)
The Walking Dead (sin, salvation, atonement)
The Wrestler (Christology, redemption)
V for Vendetta (sin, salvation)
Whale Rider (Christology)

FALL 2010 REQUIRED TEXTS

REL262 Intro to Christian Theology
Bell, Rob. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006. ISBN: 0310273080 (pbk.) (Hardback is identical if you have or buy that edition).

Hanson, Bradley. Introduction to Christian Theology. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1997. ISBN: 0800629841

McLaren, Brian D; Campolo, Anthony. Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2006, 2003. ISBN: 0310267137 (pbk.) 9780310267133 (pbk.)


REL382 Religion in America
Albanese, Catherine, America: Religions and Religion. 4th edition. 2007. (4th edition only!)

Balmer, Randall, Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America, an Evangelical's Lament. New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, 2006.

Sweeny, Douglas. The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2005
CEY212 Foundational Issues in Youth Ministry
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. 1999.

Tony Jones, Postmodern Youth Ministry. 2001

Walt Mueller, Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture: Bridging Teen Worldviews And Christian Truth, 2006.

Mark Oestreicher, Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We've Been, Where We Are & Where We Need to Go. 2008.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye. (1951) 2001.

Pete Ward, God at the Mall. 1997.