about this Story
“The Holy is too great and too terrible when encountered directly for men of normal sanity to be able to
contemplate it comfortably. Only those who cannot care for the consequences run the risk of the direct
confrontation of the Holy.” Jaroslav Pelikan
The script
Josh David Jordan’s script for El Tono Por Cristo is drawn from real accounts of the lives of saints and monks of the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the lines between the mystical, the enchanted, and the real continue to be blurred to this day. Learn more about the inspirations for the film about an unlikely saint below:
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it
is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased
through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 1 Corinthians 1:21