Prophetic Voices
Five Award-winning documentary films:
Profiles of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold NIebuhr, Howard Thurman, Dorothy Day and Abraham Heschel
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This Special Collection of five films is intended to represent what I like to think of as “narrative theology.” Through the lives of these inspiring and courageous figures we are able to experience at a deeper level how they understood the God of their traditions, and how that guided both their private and public lives through some of the most turbulent events of the 20th century.
The caliber of people who offered to come forward to be interviewed for this series is testimony itself to the urgency that won’t allow these figures to be forgotten. President Jimmy Carter, Civil Rights icons John Lewis, Andrew Young and Jesse Jackson, theologians Stanley Hauerwas and Walter Brueggemann, public figures like Martin Sheen and writer David Brooks – not only help make for engaging television but provide a defining statement to the timeless importance of these five prophetic voices.
-Martin Doblmeier
BONHOEFFER - REMASTERED
Despite his untimely death at the age of 39 at the hands of the Nazis, German-born Dietrich Bonhoeffer has emerged as one of the greatest theologians of the 20th century. Educated in both Germany and at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, Bonhoeffer became one of the early voices of resistance to the rise of Adolf Hitler. He helped form one of the seminaries for the rebellious Confessing Church, a breakaway church whose members resisted National Socialism. (90 min)
An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
Reinhold Niebuhr’s Serenity Prayer remains one of the most quoted writings in American literature. Yet Niebuhr’s impact was far greater, as presidents and civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., often turned to Niebuhr’s writings for guidance and inspiration on the most volatile political and social issues of the 20th Century. (57 min)
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
Born the grandson of enslaved people, Howard Thurman became a “spiritual mentor” for the Civil Rights Movement, inspiring many of the leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson and Congressman John Lewis. Thurman’s book Jesus and the Disinherited was said to be in King’s briefcase where ever he traveled. Today it is considered a spiritual classic. (57 min)
Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story
Dorothy Day was a grandmother, anarchist, prophet, journalist, pacifist and much more. The FBI once considered her a threat to America’s national security. Despite often being critical of leadership in her own Catholic Church, Rome is now considering her for sainthood. (57 min)
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was a mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr and the entire Civil Rights Movement, a leading critic of the Vietnam War, a champion for Soviet Jews and a pioneer in the work of interfaith dialogue. (57 min)