Here, according to Huffington Post writer John Shore, is the theology (or more accurately, anthropology) of 24‘s Jack Bauer.
I’ll admit, I read this with only very partial knowledge of the series. Lo, these many years ago, during the show’s first season, I became addicted within a couple of episodes. Then I realized it keyed me up way too much and took me way too often to my “dark place,” and I quit watching.
But I think Shore may be on to something in this piece. What do you guys think?
We share with all the saints one Lord
Francis of Assisi--part of an altarpiece by Bartolomeo Vivarini, in the Brooklyn Museum
From a mid-15th-century Dutch prayerbook: Saint James the Great; Saint Joseph; Saint Ghislain, abbot of St Ghislain, near Mons; Saint Eligius; Saint Ermes (Hermes)
Gregory the Great and St. Mamertinus, from a 14th-century French translation of Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Cologne Cathedral
The clocktower of the Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles church in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (Val-d'Oise), France
Masaccio, Crucifixion, 1426 (Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte); the blonde figure is Mary Magdalen
Door of Tewkesbury Abbey cloister
Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians
Grateful to the dead 
Chris, I do have concern if Jack Bauer is every person’s hero as portraited by John Shore. That means that we all subscribe to relative moralism and that the ends always justifies the means, that violence always solve the problems and the best way to deal with bad guys is to shoot them.
The series is rivetting and addictive. It is also about a psychopath who wears a badge.
I’m actually going to be on a podcast tonight and they’re going to be talking about this! Funny huh. The details are here if anyone feels like joining the discussion. http://tinyurl.com/27l9anx
Stephy: Maybe the lesson there is that we Christians need to get off our heinies and walk the walk, instead of spending our time watching–then talking about–TV shows which, if you stand on your head and squint one eye, seem vaguely theological. 🙂
Christians just looooove Lost and 24! They will not stop tweeting and facebooking about them.