The Way to Grace
The Way to Grace

Summary/Abstract: Terrence Malick’s fifth and most experimental film The Tree of Life provides a fertile ground for exploring the various facets of Nature, along with the questions these raise and the implications they carry for understanding our fraught relationships with the divine. As I argue, by affirming its protagonists’ vital relation to the “deeper world” they inhabit, the movie projects an ecotheological vision that casts Nature as a matter-spirit continuum, a vast “church” filled with intimations of immortality, a place they can call “home.”

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