Task 3.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 531.

Be ready to speak about the great masters who portrayed that famous bible story. Whose work does appeal to you most? Justify your point of view.

Task 2.

Browsing these links you will be able to learn some information about the Parable of the Prodigal Son and some possible ways of its interpretation and portraying this famous Bible story. In your groups discuss what are the moral issues of this eternal story, why is it so topical in Lent time according to the author of one of the articles and in you opinion?

Task 1.

WEEK 2 RELIGION IN PAINTING, MUSIC, LITERATURE AND MOVIE MAKING

http://www.foma.ru/o-trebovatelnom-bludnom-syine.html

http://www.metropolit-anthony.orc.ru/soul_put/put_5.htm

http://www.ispovednik.ru/zlatoust/Z08_2/Z08_2_096.htm

http://mystudies.narod.ru/library/t/taushev/4evangel/114.html

http://www.orthodoxabc.com/ru/files/2012/06/014-RU-ed02_Prodigal-Son.pdf

http://www.pravoslavie.ru/put/59890.htm

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+15%3A11-32&version=NIV

http://christianity.about.com/od/biblestorysummaries/p/prodigalson.htm

http://www.esvbible.org/Luke+15%3A11-32/

http://www.patheos.com/Progressive-Christian/Prodigal-Son-Alyce-McKenzie-03-04-2013

http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/rembrandt's_prodigal_son.html - Browse all the links on the page and read the descriptions of the paintings.

Read about the religious issues touched upon in the novels by F.M. Dostoevsky. What are they? Dwell upon some of them that appeal to you most of all. Watch the movie Dostoevsky (2011) for better understanding of the author's philosophy.

http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/courses/previous/ru351/studentpapers/God.shtml

http://www.faithalone.org/journal/1997ii/Townsend.html

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/the_dostoevsky_dilemma_for_religious_ethics/

http://payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/08/10/reading-doestoevsky%E2%80%99s-the-idiot-on-a-metaphysical-religious-level/

http://www.utoronto.ca/tsq/DS/03/043.shtml

http://pravmisl.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=246