Read Noah Primeval (Chronicles of the Nephilim) Online
Authors: Brian Godawa
AUDIO LECTURES BY BRIAN GODAWA
Brian has spoken around the world on the topic of movies, worldviews, and faith. Now you can purchase some of his presentations on downloadable MP3 directly from his website,
www.godawa.com
! Here are a sample of presentations:
Art, Movies & Worldviews
6-Lecture Series by Brian Godawa
1. The Church and the Arts: Friends or Foes?
2. From Bezalel to Jesus: Art in the Bible
3. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: Sex & Violence in the Movies
4. That’s More Than Entertainment!: Redemption in the Movies
5. Following Your Heart: Existentialism in the Movies
6. Losing Our Grip on Reality: Postmodernism in the Movies
Screenwriting for Christians
A 9-Lecture Series by Brian Godawa
Brian teaches the basic elements of storytelling used in writing screenplays from a Christian worldview, complete with examples and analysis of movies that illustrate the lessons. Comes with 30 pages of Student Handouts so you can follow along and take the class on tape! This was taught at YWAM's University of the Nations.
1. Introduction/ Sex & Violence & the Bible
2. Christian writer
3. Basic Structure/ Premise/Theme
4. Premise/Theme Part 2
5. Character
6. Plot
7. Scene
8. The Business and the Life of the Writer
9. Analysis of first 10 pages of “The Sixth Sense”
Storytelling
,
Worldviews
&
Persuasion
2 Lectures by Brian Godawa
The modern Christian exclusive concentration on logic, precision and rationality has missed a fuller Biblical approach. In the Scriptures, truth and persuasion are mediated through imagination and storytelling as well. Brian addresses the power of incarnation used in Biblical storytelling and imagery. Examples from film clips are used to illustrate.
Brian examines the
Biblical usage of subversion through storytelling as a means of engaging culture and capturing it for Christ. He shows how the Apostle Paul used subversion to retell the Stoic story in Christian terms.
Defense of the Faith
12-Lecture Series by Brian Godawa
This is a different approach to apologetics than the typical way that “proves” a generic theism, then “proves” the Bible, then “proves” the resurrection. This series addresses the weaknesses of typical apologetics and explores how to defend the faith on a deeper level, the level of the worldview of the unbeliever.
1. Introduction to Apologetics
2. Logic Part 1: Intro
3. Logic Part 2: fallacies
4. Logic Part 3: fallacies
5. Faith and Reason
6. Antithesis: Acts 17
7. Worldviews Part 1
8. Worldviews Part 2
9. Authority and Truth
10. Authority: Part 2
11. Ethics
12. Technique
Bible Prophecy & the End Times: It’s Not When They Told You It Is
10-Lecture Series by Brian Godawa
The Book of Revelation is more like an Epic Horror Fantasy than a sermon. Brian explores the creative literary imagery of the First Century writings used in Revelation. The Left Behind novel series has made a gazillion dollars based on a popular view of the End Times. What would shock some Christians is to discover that this view is not Biblical. Brian examines the common beliefs of the Left Behind dogma and compares them to the Bible. He shows how the Bible itself explains how most of these prophecies have already been fulfilled. A partial preterist approach to Bible prophecy.
Two options are available for purchase. You can either buy just the MP3 audio, or buy the DVD video versions that have the same audio, BUT ALSO lots of colorful and helpful Powerpoint visuals and film clips for a much richer presentation of the material.
1. Interpreting Bible Prophecy
2. Israel in Prophecy
3. The Last Days
4. The Rapture
5. The Great Tribulation
6. The Anti-Christ
7. The Beast
8. The Coming of Christ
9. The Millennium Part 1
10. The Millennium Part 2
To order these audio lectures and other books and products by Brian Godawa, as well as FREE articles, just go to the STORE at:
www.godawa.com
[1]
Geoffrey W. Bromiley, “God, Names of,”
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised
. Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1988; 2002, p. 504-508.
[2]
Michael S. Heiser,
The Myth That is True: Rediscovering the Cosmic Narrative of the Bible
, unpublished manuscript, 2011, p 25-29. Available online at www.michaelsheiser.com. I have read quite a few scholars on the divine council, but Michael Heiser has been the most helpful and represents the major influence on this essay.
[3]
Michael S. Heiser, “Monotheism, Polytheism, Monolatry, or Henotheism? Toward an Assessment of Divine Plurality in the Hebrew Bible” (2008). Faculty Publications and Presentations. Paper 277, p. 12-15,
http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1276&context=lts_fac_pubs&sei-redir=1#search=%22heiser+Monotheism,+Polytheism,+Monolatry,+or+Henotheism%22 accessed March 23, 2011.
[4]
Randall Tan, David A. deSilva, and Logos Bible Software.
The Lexham Greek-English Interlinear Septuagint
. Logos Bible Software, 2009. Baruch 4:7 in the Apocrypha echoes this Scriptural theme as well when speaking of Israel’s apostasy: “For you provoked him who made you, by sacrificing to demons and not to God.”
[5]
Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton,
The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament: English Translation
(London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1870), Is 65:11. Randall Tan and David A. deSilva, Logos Bible Software,
The Lexham Greek-English Interlinear Septuagint
(Logos Bible Software, 2009), Is 65:11.
[6]
James H. Charlesworth,
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Volume 1
, 1 En 19:1 (New York; London: Yale University Press, 1983).
[7]
The astute reader will notice that some Bible translations read “according to the sons of Israel.” The ESV reflects the latest consensus of scholarship that the Septuagint (LXX) and the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) segment of this verse is the earlier and more accurate reading than the later Masoretic Text (MT) of the same. See
Heiser, Michael, “Does Deuteronomy 32:17 Assume or Deny the Reality of Other Gods?” (2008). Faculty Publications and Presentations. Paper 322, p 137-145. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/lts_fac_pubs/322/
[8]
H. Niehr, “Host of Heaven,” Toorn, K. van der, Bob Becking, and Pieter Willem van der Horst.
Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible DDD
. 2nd extensively rev. ed. Leiden; Boston; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brill; Eerdmans, 1999., 428-29; I. Zatelli, “Astrology and the Worship of the Stars in the Bible,”
ZAW
103 (1991): 86-99.
[9]
“Astrology”,
Encyclopaedia Judaica
Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik, eds. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007, p. 8424.