Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contem-
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Like other scholars who hold that film is an important conversation partner with the perspectives of faith, Robert K. Johnston proposes to put film and Christian Scripture—and, specifically, Ecclesiastes—in a creative two-way dialogue. What makes Useless Beauty notable and well worth reading, however, is Johnston’s effort to resist the usual methods of Christian movie critique. Frequently, he claims, films are viewed principally through the filter of biblical standards of truth, a procedure that inevitably relegates film to a second order of analytical reflection. Rather than following this worn path that grants the biblical witness or theology epistemological priority, Johnston intends to reverse the “hermeneutical flow,” moving quite intentionally from cinema to scripture. He maintains that this approach, beginning as it does with the moviemaker’s cameras, will give fresh insight to the message of Qoheleth. In short, this book intends to “take Ecclesiastes to the movies” (11).
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