The Holy Family and Its Legacy
Koschorke, Albrecht / Dunlap, Thomas
Why do biblical themes continue to have such an impact on the popular imagination? Why do Mary-like mothers and Jesus-like sons play such a prominent role not only in the late Middle Ages and the Reformation but also in the Enlightenment, the nineteenth century, with its faith in science, and even our time, in such movies as The Terminator and the Star Wars saga -- to the extent that we can count them among Western society's leading cultural a...