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Many thanks to Christine Chaney, Ph.D., in the Department of English at Seattle Pacific University, for sharing these kind words\u2026<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Overstreet\u2019s Through A Screen Darkly <\/em>was a remarkably compelling book for my university students in a recent core course on the arts and faith \u2013 for some students even a transformative experience. His powerful and honest testimony about his own life, education, and faith \u2014 and the role that film played in coming to terms with all three \u2014 helped students in this class to reach often profound new insights. Many of them felt that their growing-up experiences mirrored Mr. Overstreet\u2019s and were that much more willing, as a consequence, to follow him in his arguments about the power of God to speak truthfully and even prophetically through artists of all kinds, including filmmakers. But even for those students whose upbringing was very different than his, Mr. Overstreet\u2019s book challenged them all to think deeply about the arts in new ways, as university students should, and to look with insight and intentionality toward the unexamined areas of their engagement with popular culture. And because Through A Screen Darkly <\/em>centered on such a popular art form as the movies, too, I found my students very willing to go deeper into their learning about the function and specifics of the arts in general, another strong plus in using this book as a core text. I highly recommend it in every way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Christine Chaney, Ph.D., in the Department of English at Seattle Pacific University, for sharing these kind words\u2026 Jeffrey Overstreet\u2019s Through A Screen Darkly was a remarkably compelling book for my university students in a recent core course on the arts and faith \u2013 for some students even a transformative experience. 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