Popcultured: Thinking Christianly about Style, Media and Entertainment - Softcover

Turner, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 083083768X ISBN 13: 9780830837687

Verlag: INTER VARSITY PR, 2013

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"Turner offers not only the tools for critical engagement of popular culture, but also an earnest exploration of what it means to consciously and unconsciously participate and create as Christians in the world."--Publishers Weekly, May 13, 2013

"I do not hesitate to recommend this book heartily. There are precious few good books on popular culture from a Christian perspective, and fewer still that are as ambitious and wide-ranging as this one. Turner provides a welcome addition to a seriously underdeveloped field, a field that requires more attention than it typically gets from Evangelicals. This book deserves a wide and enthusiastic readership."--Ted Turnau, Foundations, 66, May 2014

"If both Paul and Jesus could use their cultures as springboards for the Gospel, why shouldn't we? And if we want to follow their examples, this volume by Turner offers a well-informed biblical and theological guide to how we might do it."--Rev. Dr. Bob Robinson, Latimer Fellowship, 2015

". . . this is a discussion all Christians desperately need to have."--Sue Grise, CBA Retailers + Resources, July 2013

Reseña del editor:

There's no avoiding popular culture—we've been enculturated into it. What does it mean to be faithful Christians in a pop culture world? How do we think Christianly about celebrity and leisure? Some Christians try to abstain from "worldly" pursuits, while others consume culture indiscriminately, assuming it has little effect on them. But if Christ is Lord of all of life, then there ought to be Christian ways to engage with and appreciate popular culture.Steve Turner has spent his career chronicling and interviewing people from the worlds of music, film, television, fashion, art and literature. Now he provides an insider's guide to a wide range of entertainment pursuits, with biblical frameworks for understanding pop culture genres and artifacts. Turner exploreshow movies use redemptive narratives and parablesways journalistic headlines convey worldview assumptionsdifferences between famous people in the past and celebrities todaywhat ideas are communicated through clothing and fashion designhow technology changes our sense of what is realand much moreGod entrusts culture to us and gives us the ability to critique it, enjoy it and create it. This book will help you become a better cultural critic, consumer and creator.

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• Verlag: INTER VARSITY PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 083083768X
• ISBN 13: 9780830837687
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254