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A category for representations of Christianity in mainstream popular culture. For subjects produced explicitly as Christian, see Category:Christian culture and Category:Christian media . See also: Category:Bible in popular culture
While Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the rest of the Peanuts gang have enjoyed the kind of success most cartoon characters can only dream about—becoming pop culture icons of the highest order and entering the global consciousness practically as family members—Robert Short's The Gospel According to Peanuts also has found a place in ...
The second and third lines are references to Samson's death, while Cecil B. Demille is the director who made the movie depicting the Samson story. Michael Hurd's pop cantata "Swingin' Samson" (1973) is a toned-down children's musical version of the story.
A filmmaker thus faces a choice about the voice to use, with no scriptural guidance to work from. This conflicts with the filmmaker's perceived task, in the case of biblical epics, of presenting scripture without interpretation or exegesis. [2] God's voice is generally cast in biblical epics and similar movies to provide a sense of authority.
Some early Christian poets such as Ausonius continued to include allusions to pagan deities and standard classical figures and allusions continued to appear in his verse. Other Christian poems of the Late Roman Empire, such as the Psychomachia of Prudentius, cut back on allusions to Greek mythology, but continue the use of inherited classical ...
The biblical references in each of Shakespeare's plays are then analyzed, as are his references to the Prayer Book and the homilies. The question of what constitutes a valid biblical reference is also discussed." Shaheen, Naseeb. Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Plays Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-61149-358-0.