Joel Wentz

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Books and Big Ideas Audio (with Joel Wentz) · How (not) to Interpret Jesus · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

It's dishonest not to acknowledge multiple horizons.

They do similar work with The Chosen where they kind of unpack the theme of how Jesus is kind of this innovator.

Jesus is doing something different.

That's kind of the theme in the show.

And how is that relevant to the horizon of kind of our current time right now?

And how might that horizon be?

Part of the interpretive act of the creatives behind these products.

So I really love that chapter.

I thought that was fantastic.

It's one of my favorites of the book.

It's near the end of the book.

So in general, the book handles this kind of like teasing out what does interpretation mean.

Handles it very, very sensitively and thoughtfully and extraordinarily well researched in terms of films.

I was, again, I was gobsmacked at just how many films are referenced and talked about here.

So many that I had no knowledge existed.

Of course, there's big ones like Ben-Hur and The Last Temptation of Christ, and then there was the one with Ewan McGregor that came out last days in the desert, which I've seen and really liked.

So all those are an actor, but there's so much more.

I mean, it's really kind of amazing how many movies they watched and analyzed and internalized.

So the book does a lot really well.

It's a really great book, just to tip my hand.

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