The Silents of God Selected Issues and

Covering the historical period from 1908 to 1925, this study traces the process of religious response to film as a prophetic vision, a series of great debates, the articulation of film as a handmaiden to church work, and the great divorce of church and cinema, eventuating in a religious posture and emphasis on rigid censorship rather than creative dialogue.

Terry Lindvall is the Distinguished Chair of Visual Communication in the College of Communication and the Arts at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

ix

Part 1: A Prophetic Vision, 1908-1913

1

(96)

Moving Pictures and the Pulpit

3

(11)

``Minister Proposes Sunday Pictures'' and ``Missionaries and Moving Pictures''

14

(2)

Editorial: The Clergy and the Moving Picture

16

(2)

Amusement as a Factor in Man's Spiritual Uplift

18

(7)

Vaudettes

25

(5)

The Clergy and the Picture

30

(2)

The Case for Motion Pictures: Part I

32

(9)

The Case for Motion Pictures: Part II

41

(7)

Motography as an Arm of the Church

48

(6)

The Religious Possibilities of the Motion Picture

54

(25)

The Picture in the Pulpit (October 26, 1912)

79

(4)

The Picture in the Pulpit (November 16, 1912)

83

(6)

The Picture in the Pulpit (December 21, 1912)

89

(4)

The Motion Picture and the Church

93

(4)

Part 2: The Great Debates, 1913-1919

97

(116)

Sunday Closings, Commercialism, and the Dangers of the World

99

(18)

The Theater vs. the Church

117

(1)

Samson: Six Reels

118

(1)

Light on Puzzling Passages and Problems

119

(3)

Motion Pictures in Religious and Educational Work

122

(14)

The Bible and Moving Pictures

136

(2)

Studies in Social Christianity: Motion Pictures

138

(13)

Urging an Alliance of Church and Motion Picture

151

(3)

Sex Pictures Arouse Louisville Churchmen

154

(1)

Pictures in Schools and Churches

155

(2)

How to Preach by Moving Pictures

157

(4)

The Parson Who Believed in Pictures

161

(6)

Spiritualism by the Film

167

(12)

The Moving Picture: A Careful Survey of a Difficult Problem

179

(10)

An Indictment: The Moving Picture, A Clergyman's Child Has Been Neglected by the Church

189

(2)

In His Steps Today: What Would Jesus Do with the Drama?

191

(7)

Sunday Pros and Cons Plead

198

(5)

Cleveland Moffett's Crazy Quilt

203

(2)

The Moral and Social Effects of the Movies

205

(8)

Part 3: Before the Fall, 1919-1920

213

(36)

The Motion Picture as a Handmaiden of Religion

215

(6)

A Conception of Screen as Handmaid of Church Expressed by Clergymen

221

(3)

Let There Be Light!

224

(5)

Moving Pictures as an Aid to the Church

229

(2)

If Christ Went to the Movies

231

(4)

The Motion Picture as a ``Handmaid of Religion''

235

(5)

Your Enjoyment of Paramount Pictures

240

(2)

Eleven Picture Commandments

242

(2)

Education and Pictures

244

(5)

Part 4: The Great Divorce, 1920-1925

249

(68)

The Flight from Babylon Amid Public Relations

251

(8)

Motion Picture Madness

259

(7)

The Church or the Theater

266

(7)

The Movies-the Devil's Incubator

273

(9)

Hollywood as Seen by a Minister

282

(8)

Can Anything Good Come Out of Hollywood?

290

(3)

The Padre of Hollywood

293

(3)

Pictures and the Church

296

(5)

May Christians Attend Picture Shows?

301

(2)

She Defends Some of the Movies

303

(4)

More about the Movies

307

(2)

Conclusion

309

(8)

Appendix: Extracted Bits

317

(4)

Extended Bibliography

321

(48)

Index

369

(6)

About the Author

375

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