RT Article
T1 The Virtues of Being Human: Faith, Hope, and Love in James Gray's The Immigrant (2013), The Lost City of Z (2016), and Ad Astra (2019)
JF The journal of religion and film
VO 24
IS 2
SP 1
OP 27
A1 Adair, John
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1743808437
AB James Gray’s three most recent features reflect on the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love, revealed and developed through encounters with others. The Immigrant (2013) reveals the way faith informs familial commitments, social bonds, and a life-giving response to suffering and injustice. The Lost City of Z (2016) portrays a dreamer, a man whose hopeful vision of another world animates every aspect of his being. And Gray’s most recent feature, Ad Astra (2019) traces a man’s turn toward relationship as he discovers what it means to love. In each case, as Gray’s characters display these virtues, the characters transcend their boundedness, giving us a picture of the way these virtues guide us outside of ourselves, to our neighbors, and ultimately to God.
K1 James Gray
K1 Theological Virtues
K1 Thomas Aquinas
K1 Faith
K1 Hope
K1 Love
DO 10.32873/uno.dc.jrf.24.2.013