ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes seven principles that underlie understanding of the meeting of God's shining face, for seeing the Christian faith translated into film comedy. First, it argues that laughter is divine in origin. Second, the humor of incongruity in human nature existed before the fall. Third, this awareness of the cosmic discrepancy comes as the comic sours and darkens with the disobedience of Adam and Eve. Fourth, the comic is scattered throughout the sacred texts and sacred history. Fifth, the redemption of laughter is connected to the redemption of every human experience. Sixth, comedy can help modern society rediscover the supernatural, or so at least sociologist Peter L. Berger has argued. Finally, to the promise of the comic, the coming of laughter in the eschaton. The chapter shows that these films can serve as icons, enabling to look through them and not just at them, to see the grace of a God who revealed Himself in words and in flesh.
