Books & Movies: Risen (Joseph Fiennes)

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/risen/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p><strong>Great lines:</strong></p><ul><li>"The gods are angry" [Lucius]. -- "<i>One</i> of them is [Clavius]."</li><li>"Did he say anything?" [Clavius] -- "It is finished [centurion]."</li><li>"I believe Yeshua will embrace you (Clavius) as a brother, even as you slew him" [Joseph of Arimathea].</li><li>"I pray not to thee today, divine Mars, but to the God of the Hebrews, Yahweh. Hear me. Take back your favor in defense of these people I seek, and relinquish them to me. If you do this with clear and recognizable signs, I found two temples for you and initiate games in your honor" [Clavius].</li><li>"They... are... everywhere!" [Bartholomew, on being asked where the disciples are hiding.]</li><li>"But in the end, what does it matter? In a few years, that'll be us (a corpse)" [Pontius Pilate].</li><li>"Welcome, Clavius. Come join us, brother; there are no enemies here" [Yeshua].</li><li>"I have seen two things which I cannot reconcile: a man dead without question, and that same man alive again" [Clavius].</li><li>"My right hand turned against me. How could he follow [Yeshua]?" [Pilate] -- "Perhaps it's true" [Lucius]. -- "Well, if it is, I'll kill him again" [Pilate].</li><li>"I don't have every answer; we're astounded, too!" [Peter, to Clavius]</li><li>"I don't even know what to ask" [Clavius]. -- "Speak your heart" [Yeshua]. -- "I can't reconcile all this with the world I know" [Clavius].</li></ul><p><strong>Room to improve:</strong></p><ul><li>Although grace is abundant, I would have liked a little more on repentance. Jesus is warm and accepting, smiling and encouraging, without any anger or rebuke. Perhaps he could have been a little more serious. On the other hand, he interacts relatively little with the religious establishment -- those whom we know he would have been strongest in his denunciations.</li><li>At the end, Clavius walks off on his own -- he's a