Part I: Sin and Alienation in a Fallen World
Chapter 1: “Fantasies of Fallen Man”: Reading Robert Eggers’s The Northman in Light of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Catholic Aesthetics, J. Columcille Dever
Chapter 2: Gran Torino: The Sins of Walt Kowalski, Matthew J. Franck
Chapter 3: Flying the Faithless Skies: Up in the Air, Susan McWilliams Barndt
Part II: The Workings of Grace in a Fallen World
Chapter 4: God, Man, and George Bailey: The Theological Anthropology of It’s a Wonderful Life, Francis J. Beckwith
Chapter 5: Gravity and Gratitude, Christopher Tollefsen
Chapter 6: Receptivity to Grace and the Affirmation of Life: Reflections on Babette’s Feast,
Kirstin Carlson and David McPherson
Chapter 7: Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups: A Pilgrim’s Progress, R. Michael Olson
Part III: Faith and the Confrontation with Radical Evil
Chapter 8: Radical Evil and Redemption in the Dark Knight Trilogy, Micah Watson
Chapter 9: Thanos, Thor, and Theodicy: The Problem of Evil in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jordan J. Ballor
Chapter 10: Tradition, Demonic Evil, and Despair in No Country for Old Men, Carson Holloway
Chapter 11: Malick on Martyrdom: A Hidden Life, Jennifer A. Frey