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Along the lines of a fictionalized account of Jesus, does anyone remember Jesus Christ Superstar? Like it? Love it? Hate it? Indifferent about it?

I was thinking about how my congregation would have responded if I had preached a fictional Jesus (even with the good intention of encouraging them to read the Bible.) I’ve spoken with other pastors and, though the sample size is small, they weren’t keen on the idea either.

I remember what you said. I’m sure you’ll also remember what I said: truth > entertainment. I’m personally not interested in entertainment that points to a fictional characterization of Jesus.

To a unitarian.

Thanks. Personally I’m not down with a 95% fictional presentation of what might have happened. Putting words on the lips of Jesus which aren’t found in scripture is skating on very thin ice, at best. I don’t know. Maybe viewers really are sitting down with their Bibles after viewing an episode...

Back to the new Moses. Is Jesus or is Jesus not identified in scripture as the prophet like Moses whom God promised to raise up from among the people?

This trinitarian source takes what I personally consider to be a more reasonable approach to the question of whether or not people should watch The Chosen. In general, it gives the program a positive review. “As long as viewers remember that what they are seeing is art and not real life - and...

More quotes in this piece made by Jenkins and others connected with the program, but still nothing to confirm the 95% figure. It’s a quick read. Readers might want to consider the fourteen reasons the author gives explaining why he won’t watch The Chosen...

I don’t know what the religious beliefs of the author of the article linked in the OP are. Whatever they are, they aren’t compatible with the presentation of Jesus in The Chosen. In attempting to track down the quote by Jenkins which I mentioned in post #3, I read a trinitarian critique of The...

I don’t know if you’ve read the comments in the article linked in the OP or not, but it is said there that one of the persons connected with the program has acknowledged that “95% of The Chosen is not from the Bible.” If that is correct, and I haven’t attempted to verify whether it is or not...

I don’t think I’ve ever read them saying it but I have heard them saying it during television interviews. Do you by chance happen to remember a comedian whose stage name was Soupy Sales? When I was a child I thought he was very entertaining. The partial episode I watched of The Chosen reminded...

You believe in literal preexistence. I believe in notional preexistence. The interesting thing to me is that trinitarians who believe in literal preexistence and unitarians who believe in literal preexistence have taught for nearly 2000 years that Jesus is the new Moses. See above.

I’ve had Paradise Lost on my reading list for over thirty years. I really do need to get around to reading it some day. I had an elective English class in High School which had it as an option on a list of books students were given to choose from. I was a trinitarian in those days and my...

The topic of this thread is A.I.

A.I. unbelievable. Why? Because the viewer knows and remembers the true story. A.I. believeable. Why? Because the viewer doesn’t know, and therefore cannot remember, the true story.

As someone who encourages others to “read widely, deeply, thoughtfully and critically” I was hooked by Bishop Strickland’s comment, “An important article that should be read widely”. So I read it this morning. Have Catholic members of the Board read it? If so, what do they think about it...

On a nostalgia trip this morning. The survey reminds me of an incident that happened in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky* when I was just beginning my career as a civil engineer. I was having a conversation with a grizzled old man. In the course of that conversation, the kindly old gentleman...