How Long to Read Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema

By Sean Desilets

How Long Does it Take to Read Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 39 minutes to read Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema by Sean Desilets

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Description

This book revisits the tradition of Western religious cinema in light of scholarship on St. Paul’s political theology. The book’s subtitle derives from the account in the Book of Acts that St. Paul was temporarily blinded in the wake of his conversion on the road to Damascus. In imitation of Paul, the films on which Sean Desilets’s analysis hinges (including those of Carl-Th. Dreyer, Robert Bresson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Carlos Reygadas) place a god-blind mechanism, the camera, between themselves and the divine. Desilets calls the posture they adopt "hermeneutic humility": hermeneutic in...

How long is Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema?

Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema by Sean Desilets is 215 pages long, and a total of 54,825 words.

This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 59 minutes to read Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema aloud.

What Reading Level is Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema?

Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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