Disney's 'Frozen' Movie filled with Christian Themes 'The Act of Love' Comes from Self-Sacrifice

Disney's animated film 'Frozen' has done remarkably well in the box office and a University in Houston is saying the film is loaded with Christian Undertones.

Collin Garbarino, assistant history professor at Houston Baptist University, upon seeing the film that was released late last year, took to the University's blog claims that the children's flick has more Christian themes than C. S. Lewis' "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe."

The blog post has garnered much attention with its claims. In an interview with Fox News Garbarino explained his correlation.

"The Christian message is that people are sinners and have these broken relationships and that Christ comes and takes on the punishment for that sin, dies a death that he didn't deserve, and then is resurrected and then brings reconciliation through people," he told Fox News.

Then making the connection to the characters in the now two-time Academy Award nominated film, Garbarino describes the films sacrificial message.

"Elsa has broken relationships, and she has guilt, and she pushes people away - and her sister is sort of like a Christ figure who pursues her," Garbarino said. "Anna comes and pursues, and when she pursues her, she has to die. And then she's resurrected, which kind of proves the strength of her love, and it brings reconciliation, and Elsa is saved because her sister dies."

In another interview with theguardian.com the Houston professor said, "Our children need to hear that sometimes the act of love has to come from the person who has been wronged. Christ comes to us, and he's wounded for our transgressions, even though mankind has turned its back on him. God hasn't given up on us."

In the 1990s Professor Garbarino's denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, led a boycott of Disney. One of their main complaints was that the studio's animated films were abandoning their "family values" tradition.