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This screening is part of a 5-week course in which we will think together about salvation: how films depict salvation of various kinds, and in various ways; how we might reflect on this to deepen our understanding of the Christian understanding of salvation. You may sign up here for the individual screening of Babette’s Feast or click here to sign up for the whole course.
Participants will have the opportunity to use film as a medium for sustained theological reflection; to explore how ideas are animated and given shape by stories; and to think critically about their own theological assumptions about salvation.
The basics for each evening will be very simple: introductory talk; film screening; group discuss. Each week will be accompanied by an audio introduction which will enable further reflection on the film, and a reading from The Heythrop Library to provide some food for thought.
Many films have explored the dynamics of guilt and repentance, from the painful final scenes of La Strada to the nightmare-ish descent into madness of Mullhollland Dr. But few do so in such a powerful, mysterious way as this neo-Western by Tommy Lee Jones. We will consider what it might have to show us about sin, community and penance.
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Stuart is the Theology Lead at LJC. He graduated with a degree in Literature and Theology from the University of Hull in 2000. From 2003-9 he studied Philosophical Theology part-time at the University of Nottingham, whilst continuing to work in the third sector with vulnerably-housed or homeless people, and young asylum seekers (as well as pulling pints in a pub). He was Lecturer at York St John University for almost a decade, before moving to London Jesuit Centre in 2021. He now lives in South East London, and spends as much time as he can in the woods.
