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Medicine, miracle, and magic in New Testament times / H.C. Kee.

Kee, Howard Clark. . Medicine, miracle, and magic in New Testament times / H.C. Kee. 0521323096 series Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Call#: Van Pelt Library R135.5 .K44 1986
Call#: Van Pelt Library R135.5 .K44 1986
Call#: University Museum Library MUSEUM R135.5 .K44 1986
Call#: University Museum Library MUSEUM R135.5 .K44 1986

Charismatic figure as miracle worker.

Tiede, David Lenz. . Charismatic figure as miracle worker. series [Missoula? Mont.] Published by Society of Biblical Literature for the Seminar on the Gospels, 1972.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BJ1521 .T48 1972

Great expectation : eschatological thought in English Protestantism to 1660 / by Bryan W. Ball.

Ball, B. W. (Bryan W.) . Great expectation : eschatological thought in English Protestantism to 1660 / by Bryan W. Ball. 9004043152 series Leiden : Brill, 1975.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BT819.5 .B3

Open heaven : a study of apocalyptic in Judaism and early Christianity / Christopher Rowland.

Rowland, Christopher, 1947- . Open heaven : a study of apocalyptic in Judaism and early Christianity / Christopher Rowland. 0824504550 series New York : Crossroad, 1982.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS646 .R58 1982

Golden chain : studies in the development of Platonism and Christianity / John Dillon.

Dillon, John M. . Golden chain : studies in the development of Platonism and Christianity / John Dillon. 0860782867 : series Brookfield, Vt. : Variorum, 1990.
Call#: Van Pelt Library B517 .D53 1990

Sources of the doctrines of the fall and original sin.

Tennant, Frederick Robert, 1866-1957. . Sources of the doctrines of the fall and original sin. series New York, Schocken Books, [1968].
Call#: Van Pelt Library BT710 .T4 1968

Modern Sannyasins : Protestant missionary contribution to Ceylon Tamil culture / Charles R.A. Hoole.

Hoole, Charles R. A. . Modern Sannyasins : Protestant missionary contribution to Ceylon Tamil culture / Charles R.A. Hoole. [3906755215 (pbk.) ] Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c1995.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BV3275 .H66 1995

Christianity, traditional cultures, and nationalism : the South Asian experience / Sinnappah Arasaratnam.

Arasaratnam, Sinnappah. . Christianity, traditional cultures, and nationalism : the South Asian experience / Sinnappah Arasaratnam. [Jaffna] : Jaffna College, 1978.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BR1143 .A73 1978

Color in Christian Visionary Experience

Benz, Ernst. “Color in Christian Visionary Experience.” Color Symbolism: The Eranos Lectures. Ed. Klaus Ottmann. Putnam: Spring Publications, 2005. 155-214.

Color plays an important part in Don’t Look Now, especially the color red. Roeg weaves red throughout the film, from Christine’s plastic raincoat to the Band-Aid on Johnnie’s finger, from the lettering of the “Venice in Peril” sign to the bathrobe of the sisters’ neighbor. In Du Maurier’s story, the color red is not mentioned, so the use of the color is all Roeg’s doing. Beyond merely linking Christine to the murderer, the color red also serves a more symbolic purpose. Roeg ties the color red to the blind sister, Heather, and her psychic visions. The fact that Heather can see Christine’s red jacket is not as mysterious as the fact that she knows what the color red is. If she has been blind since childbirth, which her sister, Wendy, intimates to Laura and John, there is no way she would know what red looked like. Heather is already semi-divine in her ability to see the future, but the presence of color in her prophetic visions ties her into the tradition of Christian visions.
Benz’s text was part of a 1972 conference in Switzerland call the Eranos conference. Famous psychologists, theologists, phenomenologists, and other types of scholars from around the globe met to discuss “The Realms of Colour” (ix). Benz, a well-known protestant theologian and church historian, focused his lecture on color and its relation to Christian visions, such as the prophecies of Revelations (170-171). At times hard to follow, Benz basically explores the connection between the vivid colors and physical descriptions in Christian visions and their relation to God and mortality.
Benz explains that, “As a rule the eyes are closed in the visionary ecstatic state; the physical capacity for sight through the eye is eliminated” (159). Heather’s visions definitely follow in this tradition, because, as a blind person, she does not have the capacity for sight. The “ecstatic state,” which Benz references, is ambiguous, but could be interpreted as the epileptic-like trance that Heather falls into when experiencing her visions...