Temptation
Description
This program examines Adam and Eve's tasting of the forbidden fruit and their subsequent expulsion from Eden. The program explores freedom of choice, the nature of good and evil, the meaning of sin, and issues of gender and sexuality. Featured in the program are philosopher Leon Kass; biblical translator Stephen Mitchell; Elaine Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton Univ.; psychotherapist Naomi Rosenblatt; Catholic theologian Jean-Pierre Ruiz; Marianne Meye Thompson, author of The Humanity of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel; and Catholic Univ. Historian Robin Darling Young.
Runtime
60 min
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Date of Publication
[2013], c1996
Database
Films on Demand
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