Shining Glory: Theological Reflections on Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (Biblia.com)

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Terrence Malick’s stunning film The Tree of Life is a modern Job story, an exploration of suffering and glory, an honest look at strife within a Texas family in the 1950s. In Shining Glory, Peter J. Leithart examines the biblical and theological motifs of the film and illuminates how Malick exploited the visual poetry of film to produce one of the most spiritually challenging and theologically...

his boils with a fragment of pottery, bewildered that his life could collapse so completely so quickly (2:8). Despite his wife’s urging, Job refuses to curse God, but he does curse the day of his birth: “Let the day perish on which I was to be born, and the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived’ ” (3:2–3). The bulk of Job consists of lengthy dialogues between Job and his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar (2:11). They are convinced that Job would not suffer so severely unless he had committed

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