Project! Project! My Christian Humanism IV classes will be having a major project. They are tasked to create a 20 minute short film on Virtue and Filipino values. I have asked each class to have four groups each (with a maximum of 10 members). The schedule deadlines are as follows

1st Quarter: Groupings, Staff: Producer, Director, Scriptwriter; Conceptualisation
2nd Quarter: Finance, Script, Pre-production Storyboard
3rd Quarter: Shooting, Trailer Production (1 minute max)
4th Quarter: Post Production & Movie Premiere Marketing

To aid the class in the movie making process, I suggest the following sites:

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  The Threefold Love The Threefold Love

I. The threefold love

a. Edward Vacek: fullness of the love of God

i. Agape: love for the beloved
ii. Philia: love for the union itself
iii. Eros: love the lover experiences as a lover
iv. All-encompassing comprehensiveness of God’s love


II. Responding to God

a. All-encompassing (whole mind, heart, whole soul) Matthew 22:37-39
b. Complete Offering: Suscipe: Take & Receive
c. Because of that comprehensiveness, and if one were not to believe in God, that person would be incomplete

III. God

a. Not only the love of God in other people:
b. Love of God as “other”
c. Prayer
i. Active receptivity (Avila)
ii. Comprehensiveness of Love (Iggy)

IV. Self

a. Model of neighbour love is love for self
i. Not thinking of ourselves as good
ii. Romans 6: 8, God does not love us in our goodness but in our sin
iii. Movie: hindi tayo tinatawag dahil magaling tayo, pero dahil mahal niya an gating buong pagkatao

V. Neighbour

a. Not only Christ in the Neighbour
b. Neighbour himself
c. One thing to love Christ in Jack, but another to actually love Jack  ¶ 6:12 am 0 comments

  The Primacy of Love Keenan asks, "Why begin with love?" He gives three reasons:

1. Scriptures: The scriptures command it. We see that both the old and the new testaments show that love is the ground of our happiness:
   
1. Jesus exhorts us to “love the Lord God, will all your might… neighbor as yourself”
2. Ten commandments: love and honor your God: on it depends all our commandments
3. 1 John 2, 7-11; 16-17; 19-21.
2. Theology: The love of God precedes whatever else we discuss in theology: love is our understanding of God, creation, redemption, sanctification, and eschatological promise
1. Our concept of God: God is love. Thus, love is how we understand God.
   
1. Karl Rahner asserts that God has to be triune – God needs to be in God’s self more than one person in order to be love. The lover needs the beloved.
2. Love explains creation. We should see the creation accounts in Genesis as not merely myths. The point of the creation stories is not the details of who and what happened in each day. The point of the creation stories is to show that creation is an overflowing of God's love.
   
3. Love as the ground of our redemption. John 3:16 states “for God so loved the world he gave us His only Son…” and our justification.
   
4. Love as our goal. When we speak of Eschatology, we speak of the Kingdom of God, or heaven. Heaven is a state of union with God—beholding God in His splendour, being constantly in love with God.
3. Human Tradition: Human experience dictates that unlike freedom or truth, love drives, animates.
1. Gerard Gilleman
1. charity as the love of God dwelling within us
2. love of God as no less than the Holy Spirit
3. Charity animates us
2. Conversions:
1. St. Augustine: Late have I loved you...
   
2. Conversion of St. Paul. To further the discussion, Keenan proposes that you compare the following paintings:

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