ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to integrate the three scholarly domains of theology, philosophy, and film studies. Despite mutual interests in cinema's transcendent qualities and transformative effects, the parallel conversations rarely converge and often misinterpret the other when they do. This chapter proposes a dynamic “perichoretic” approach for integrating these conversations; that is, an egalitarian exchange of ideas marked by mutual giving and receiving from each scholarly field where every contributor is on more level, equitable ground when making interpretations of cinema. In this constructive “montage” approach, cinema, theology, and philosophy are brought together into a synthesis where new knowledge and understanding are generated via the subjects' juxtaposition and nexus.
