“American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel” is a documentary about an idea that’s now such a contradiction in American culture that it has come to feel like an oxymoron, or maybe an M.C. Escher brain teaser: liberal Christianity. I mean liberal in the classic sense (per Webster’s: “marked by generosity…associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom [and] greater individual participation in government”), and I also mean Christianity in the classic sense (the teachings of Jesus Christ). It’s far from counterintuitive to point out that those two things actually fit rather well together.
So why is the political face of Christianity in the United States today exclusively, and dogmatically, Republican? Is it because Jesus himself would have cheered on tax breaks for corporations? Or would have embraced New York Times headlines like “‘There is a Stench’: Soiled Clothes and No Baths for Migrant Children at...
So why is the political face of Christianity in the United States today exclusively, and dogmatically, Republican? Is it because Jesus himself would have cheered on tax breaks for corporations? Or would have embraced New York Times headlines like “‘There is a Stench’: Soiled Clothes and No Baths for Migrant Children at...
- 7/10/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Abramorama has acquired worldwide rights to American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel, a new documentary by filmmakers Jeanine and Catherine Butler.
The film, which focuses on a group of defiant ministers, congregations and community leaders in the Bible Belt who are challenging deeply rooted fundamentalist Christian doctrine in favor of a Gospel of Inclusion, made its world premiere in Telluride at the 2019 Mountain Film Festival in May.
Filmmakers Jeanine and Catherine Butler said, “Our goal when we set out to make this film was to hopefully spark new conversations around the issues that divide as friends, families and Americans.”
American Heretics is a Butlerfilms production in association with Contemporary Dialogues, produced and directed by Jeanine Butler & Catherine Butler. Abramorama will start the theatrical release on July 12 at New York’s Village East Cinema, followed by engagements in select cities across North America.
The film, which focuses on a group of defiant ministers, congregations and community leaders in the Bible Belt who are challenging deeply rooted fundamentalist Christian doctrine in favor of a Gospel of Inclusion, made its world premiere in Telluride at the 2019 Mountain Film Festival in May.
Filmmakers Jeanine and Catherine Butler said, “Our goal when we set out to make this film was to hopefully spark new conversations around the issues that divide as friends, families and Americans.”
American Heretics is a Butlerfilms production in association with Contemporary Dialogues, produced and directed by Jeanine Butler & Catherine Butler. Abramorama will start the theatrical release on July 12 at New York’s Village East Cinema, followed by engagements in select cities across North America.
- 6/26/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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