Overall though, this is a solid action movie that I recommend. There are a couple of other things that are never really explained either but this is a Van Damme movie so you know where the priority lies in making this kind of movie and it ain't character development. The book consists of five visions, twelve mandates (commandments), and ten similitudes (parables) that were granted to Hermas, a former slave. The reason he does is very cool but you don't find out until the very end. I think Van Damme's character's motives should have been presented earlier in the movie, especially in regard to why he carries around a rabbit. The only negative thing I can say about this movie is that the story is a little underdeveloped. All of the fight scenes in this film are very well done and the gun battles are above average for this type of film as well. Van Damme holds his own though and although he isn't quite as athletic as Adkins is, he can still kick with the best of them. Adkins is so good in fact that before I watched "The Shepherd", I thought that Van Damme might not look very believable in defeating him on screen. For further evidence check out "Undisputed 2". Costar Scott Adkins shows why he should be the next big star in the martial arts genre. Here I will provide a summary of the Shepherd of Hermas’ contents, as well as some of its more unusual features. 120-121): The Shepherd of Hermas, a strange allegory written sometime in the second century, had a great vogue in orthodox circles and was even included in some copies of the New Testament (it is found in the Sinaitic Codex). The book primarily deals with ethics and living as a Christian, and is not primarily theological. Howell-Smith writes concerning the Shepherd of Hermas (Jesus Not a Myth, pp. The general tone of the book is that the speaker simply wants to live out the Christian life faithfully and with devotion. The action in this movie is great and the fight scenes rank with Van Damme's best. The Shepherd of Hermas is a story, where the speaker speaks about his life and growth as a Christian who was freed from slavery. Van Damme plays a border patrol agent who is out to stop heroin smugglers trying to cross into the United States. A poem written against Marcion from the 3rd or 4th century, by a writer adopting the name and persona of Tertullian and sometimes therefore referred to as 'Pseudo-Tertullian' states 'Then, after him, Pius, whose brother according to the flesh was Hermas, the angelic shepherd, because he spoke the words given to him. In it Hermas, a rich freed slave whose wealth was not always lawfully obtained, undergoes and relates several visions (including one from an angel disguised as a. This is the best direct-to-DVD effort from Van Damme that I have seen yet. Extremely popular in its time, The Shepherd of Hermas is a second-century work often used for instruction of catechumens, and in fact, is widely regarded as scripture.
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