Tag Archives: ImagoDei

Should Churches Use ‘The Chosen’?

Posted on 22 January 2025 by Benj

We would all like to hope that visual portrayals of Jesus can help the Bible stories come alive to people. But I think that the positive impact of films like The Passion of the Christ and shows like The Chosen is mainly to reenchant and reinvigorate the interest of Christians who already know the true Jesus through the witness of the canonical Gospels. For those whose faith or experience with Jesus in the Bible is marginal, visual portrayals of Jesus run the risk of displacing the discipleship pathway: getting to know Jesus through the given means of written Scripture, faithful teaching in church community, and sacrament. Continue reading →

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More Recent Appearances on #OneFear podcast

Posted on 20 November 2023 by Benj

I’ve been back on my friend Dom’s podcast, #OneFear, with a couple of new episodes last week and this week: S3E27 – Repaired Images S3E28 – Exploring 1 Samuel 4-6 Dom and his wife, Danielle, host #OneFear. They do a … Continue reading →

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Seminar: “Images of Healing, Healing Images”

Posted on 30 January 2022 by Benj

This presentation explores the concept of the “image of God” found in the Hebrew Scriptures, and its value for understanding the task of the healing and caregiving professions. Against the backdrop of other ancient Near Eastern conceptions of cultic images—their fashioning, care and feeding, and function to mediate the deities’ presence—the Bible describes only human beings as adequate images to mediate the presence of YHWH, Israel’s deity, into the world. Treating human beings with care and dignity, and participating in their healing, is an act that allows both patient and caregiver to mediate the presence of God to one another and into the world. Continue reading →

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