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The Culturally Savvy Christian (last copy)
Author: Dick Staub
Publisher: John Wiley/Jossey-Bass
Format: Paperback
Categories: Christianity, Church, Cultural Trends, Society, Trends
Item: 0470344032
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A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite. In "The Culturally Savvy Christian" (his incisive critique of contemporary culture and religion) Dick Staub concludes that though it is influential, American popular culture is generally superficial (diversionary, mindless, and celebrity-driven) spiritually delusional (moralistic, therapeutic, and deistic) and soulless (sustained not by art, craft, and ideas, but by the mad pursuit of profit--propped up by marketing and technology). Similarly American Christianity has devolved into its own mindless, diversionary, and celebrity-driven superficiality.
Because humans are created in God's image with spiritual, intellectual, creative, moral, and relational capacities, we long for more, yet the true seeker faces the lose-lose alternatives of a soul-numbing culture and a vacuous Christianity-lite. The renaissance we need in both faith and culture will originate in a deep spiritual renewal that restores God's image in us and creates a new breed of culturally savvy, thoughtful creatives who rekindle the spiritual, intellectual, and creative legacy of Christians as enrichers of culture.
"Dick Staub has watched from a unique vantage point as our culture--not least our Christian culture--has been sliding into more and more of a muddle and a mess. Now he offers a sharp, many-sided analysis of where we've allowed ourselves to get to--and a bracing, fresh prescription for how Christians can and should be leading the way through and out into a wiser, richer mode of being human. This is an urgent book for our times--and for our health."--N. T. Wright, Bishop of Durham, author of Surprised by Hope
Product Type | Books |
ISBN | 0470344032 |
ISBN 13 | 9780470344033 |
Weight | 0.7000 |
Pages | 232 |
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