2/22/2017
Alexander Popov
And is not man’s right to live, not to die, and his will to choose good or evil the most valuable thing in the world?
After Foucault’s Pendulum, it became clear to me why Christianity forbids reading occult literature: It is too great a temptation for the proud mind.
The uniqueness of this book is that it was written by a Catholic, but it offers a profoundly Orthodox understanding of sin and grace, holiness and pride.
May the raven die in the human heart, and the dove, the grace of the Holy Spirit, spread wings instead.
Rating: 9.7|Votes: 3
After series of gangster movies which he shot in great numbers in the 1990s and 2000s and which ensured his popularity among film fans and film critics, after his “black” comedy, “The Wolf of Wall Street”, which focused on the financial crisis, Martin Scorsese has returned to the theme of his scandalous religious tragedy “The Last Temptation of Christ” (which was not a success precisely because it involved blasphemy against Christ) by making a new and rather controversial movie on spiritual temptations, tests of faith, and search for God.
