Jun 18, 2024 | 3 Quarks Daily, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Artistic License, Flood Geology, Flood Narrative, Heaven, Hell, Noah, Noah's Ark, Noah's Flood, Paul Braterman, Statement of Faith, The Zone of Interest, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Placard from inside the Ark Encounter. Photo by Susan L. Trollinger. In my last post, I highlighted the ways in which the Noah family featured at the Answers in Genesis (AiG) tourist site, Ark Encounter, bears remarkable similarities to...
Jun 11, 2024 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Artistic License, Auschwitz, Flood Narrative, Hannah Arendt, Jonathan Glazer, Martin Amis, Nazi Germany, Nazism, Noah, Noah's Flood, The Zone of Interest, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger Still photo from of The Zone of Interest (2023), directed by Jonathan Glazer. Image via bookandfilmglobe.com. The Zone of Interest will be on my mind for a long, long time. This powerfully disturbing film about the Holocaust (perhaps the best I...
May 20, 2024 | Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Artistic License, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Evangelical Rhetoric, Fundamentalism, Noah, Noah's Flood, Religious Rhetorics, University of Dayton, Visual Rhetoric, Young Earth Creationism |
Compiled by Susan Trollinger University of Dayton students visit Ark Encounter. Image by Susan Trollinger, 2024. This spring, I taught a class in which we devoted a unit to studying the arguments and visual/material rhetorics of Protestant fundamentalism. We enjoyed...
Mar 15, 2024 | Exodus, Moses, Noah |
by Susan Trollinger A mannequin figure of Noah on display at Ark Encounter. Image via YouTube. Reading Exodus 32:9-10 always gives me pause. According to this text, God would nurture a wrath so great that He would say the following: “I see how stiff-necked this...
