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Educational Course on Theological Anthropology through the Movie “The Lion King”<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Father Rafael Pou, L.C., has created an educational course on theological anthropology in dialogue with Disney’s “The Lion King.” There are nine videos throughout which the story is presented, alongside the various stages of the “theological history” of the human being: creation, fall, and redemption.<\/div>\n
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They are a series of videos especially designed for young people, but adults can also enjoy them. As Father Rafael explains, it is “for anyone who already has some basic notions of the Christian faith, but not necessarily a coherent picture in which many of these fit and make sense and have value.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Several\u00a0young people from Regnum Christi<\/a>\u00a0and students from the\u00a0Francisco de Vitoria University<\/a>\u00a0already enjoyed this course when Father Rafael taught it in person years ago. Now it can be viewed on his own channel of\u00a0YouTube<\/a>: \u201cI enjoyed doing it and thought it was something valuable that I could share. So I decided to record it.\u201d<\/p>\n

How did the idea of making this course inspired by The Lion King and not another come about?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The idea first came to me when I watched some lectures by Jordan Peterson analyzing this movie through Jungian psychology. I found it very interesting, but I also thought it was somewhat limited; that faith allowed me to discover a theological layer of meanings and parallels that he was missing.<\/p>\n

Moreover, I discovered that this kind of interpretation could help illuminate an aspect of Christianity that initially seems difficult for the modern man to digest: the fact that God is king. The banner of Western culture, for several centuries now, has been that of absolute freedom, and therefore Christian concepts of authority, obedience, and commandments are considered taboo today. I thought that this story could shed light on its true meaning and offer a panoramic view of the Christian vision of man, in which the kingship of God can be revealed as attractive and desirable. Because the main problem of atheism and unbelief is not that it doesn\u2019t seem true that God exists, but that it doesn\u2019t seem good<\/em> (since it would seem that God is an enemy of my freedom).<\/p>\n

Read the full interview published by the Communications Office of the Territory of Spain.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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