I’ll let Captain Laura Van Schaick from the Salvation Army in Ontario (my own province) explain from her review:ĭespite its overwhelming popularity, there are elements of this romance that paint an unhealthy picture of love. Redeeming Love romanticizes and eroticizes what is essentially an abusive, controlling relationship.
Yes, erotica is bad, but I also think it’s important to ask, “what are we being prompted to get turned on by?” What else is going on? And it’s there that I see far more disturbing elements. However, in this case it reminds me of how Every Man’s Battle frames lust as a sin against a man’s purity, rather than a sin against an actual woman–or frames pornography as a sin against a man’s purity, rather than a contributor to sex trafficking. And that can do major damage to a sex life! So I agree that this can definitely be an issue. I know many teen girls especially who started on Christian fiction, then went to Nora Roberts type books, and then on to full-blown erotica. He seemed never to actually see Angel and who she was, but only this ideal of what he believed she could be.Īnyway, I’m super busy right now and I didn’t really want to reread the book or watch the movie, so I thought I’d just link to some reviews that I thought made some important points, and give a bit more commentary on those!īut first, one observation: I noticed while looking up Christian reviews that one of the big criticisms of the book and movie is that they’re too erotic, and that can be a slippery slope. I read Redeeming Love many, many years ago, and don’t remember much except that I really, really didn’t like Michael.
She never wanted to marry him, and she keeps leaving, and he keeps pursuing, and then finally they end up together in the end. Michael hears God telling him to marry Angel, and he does (well, he marries Angel Angel doesn’t actually marry him, since she’s pretty much unconscious during the ceremony, but more on that in a minute). Angel has been sex trafficked since she was 8 years old, and works in a brothel. It’s supposed to be the book of Hosea in the Bible put in the 1850s goldrush in California.
This year Universal Pictures made it into a movie, and it opened in theatres last week. Redeeming Love was originally a novel written by Francine Rivers in 1991, and it quickly became one of the best-selling Christian novels of all time. Everyday for the last month I’ve received multiple social media messages asking me to write a review of the Redeeming Love movie.
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