{"id":42940,"date":"2014-03-07T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cc_paul_putz-son_of_god_and_marketing_jesus_movies_to_ministers\/"},"modified":"2014-03-07T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T03:00:08","slug":"cc_paul_putz-son_of_god_and_marketing_jesus_movies_to_ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42940","title":{"rendered":"(CC) Paul Putz&#8211;Son of God and marketing Jesus movies to ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Film critics have spoken: Son of God is a dud.<\/p>\n<p>Just don\u2019t tell that to the film\u2019s producers, Roma Downey and Mark Burnett. They found evidence of divine favor in the film\u2019s release, citing the \u201ctruly miraculous\u201d\u009d support they received as Catholic and evangelical leaders from Charlotte to Los Angeles threw their influence behind the movie. Clearly, their efforts were successful\u201d\u201da film that was a re-packaged version of scenes that aired during last year\u2019s Bible miniseries brought in $26.5 million in ticket sales for its first weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Burnett and Downey attribute the wave of support to a grassroots movement and the \u201cquiet commitment of people of faith to spread the word about the life-changing love of Jesus to their friends and neighbors.\u201d\u009d<br \/>\n&#8216;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/blogs\/archive\/2014-03\/son-god-and-marketing-jesus-movies-ministers\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film critics have spoken: Son of God is a dud. Just don\u2019t tell that to the film\u2019s producers, Roma Downey and Mark Burnett. They found evidence of divine favor in the film\u2019s release, citing the \u201ctruly miraculous\u201d\u009d support they received<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42940\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,42,162,582,149,419,89,435,93,154,184,108,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-christology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-evangelicals","category-media","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-movies-television","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}