In the spirit of bold Christianity and thinking conservatism, Jean Bethke Elshtain offers her comments on P. T. Anderson's There Will Be Blood. She praises the director and his leading man, the inimitable Daniel Day-Lewis, for their committment to depicting a dark, excessive, and complex character with honesty and insight.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2008/003/2.22.html

Do you agree that Daniel Planview (in his better moments) exhibits the qualities of "pagan virtue," like that described in The City of God?

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