A Matrix Of Meanings Engaging Culture

Author : Craig Detweiler,Barry Taylor
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781585583324

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A Matrix of Meanings (Engaging Culture) by Craig Detweiler,Barry Taylor Pdf

From the glittering tinsel of Hollywood to the advertising slogan you can't get out of your head, we are surrounded by popular culture. In A Matrix of Meanings Craig Detweiler and Barry Taylor analyze aspects of popular culture and ask, What are they doing? What do they represent? and What do they say about the world in which we live? Rather than deciding whether Bono deserves our admiration, the authors examine the phenomenon of celebrity idolization. Instead of deciding whether Nike's "Just do it" campaign is morally questionable, they ask what its success reflects about our society. A Matrix of Meanings is a hip, entertaining guide to the maze of popular culture. Plentiful photos, artwork, and humorous sidebars make for delightful reading. Readers who distrust popular culture as well as those who love it will find useful insight into developing a Christian worldview in a secular culture.

Author : Craig Detweiler,Barry Taylor
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801024177

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A Matrix of Meanings by Craig Detweiler,Barry Taylor Pdf

A lighthearted analysis of modern pop culture considers what lessons can be learned from today's movies, music, television, and more, exploring how its popularity and successes reflects today's society. Original.

Author : Kutter Callaway,Dean Batali
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493405855

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Watching TV Religiously (Engaging Culture) by Kutter Callaway,Dean Batali Pdf

Helping Christians Understand the Power and Meaning of TV Since its inception, television has captured the cultural imagination. Outside of work and sleep, it is now the primary preoccupation of most Americans. Individuals consume upward of five hours of TV daily, even more when taking into account viewing done online and on mobile devices. TV is so ingrained in the fabric of everyday life that it can't help but function as one of the primary means through which we make sense of our lives and the world. This book shows that television--as a technology, a narrative art form, a commodity, and a portal for our ritual lives--confronts viewers theologically. Whether its content is explicitly spiritual or not, TV routinely invites (and sometimes demands) theological reflection. This book articulates something of the presence and activity of God in the golden age of TV and forges an appropriate response to an ever-changing cultural form. It constructs a theology of television that allows for both celebration and critique, helping Christians more fully understand and appreciate the power and meaning of TV. A supplemental website provides additional resources, conversations, and close readings of TV programs.

Author : Clive Marsh,Vaughan S. Roberts
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441240507

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Personal Jesus (Engaging Culture) by Clive Marsh,Vaughan S. Roberts Pdf

Pop music is now an ever-present force shaping citizens in the West. Even at funerals, pop music is often requested over hymns. But how does popular music work? And what roles does it play for listeners who engage it? This new addition to the critically acclaimed Engaging Culture series explores the theological significance of the ways pop music is listened to and used today. The authors show that popular music is used by religious and nonreligious people alike to make meaning, enabling listeners to explore human concerns about embodiment, create communities, and tap into transcendence. They assess what is happening to Christian faith and theology as a result. The book incorporates case studies featuring noted music artists of our day--including David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Sigur Rós, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and Lady Gaga--and includes practical implications for the church, the academy, and daily musical listening. It also includes a foreword by Tom Beaudoin, author of Virtual Faith.

Author : Brad Harper,Paul Louis Metzger
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587431739

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Exploring Ecclesiology by Brad Harper,Paul Louis Metzger Pdf

This evangelical and ecumenical ecclesiology survey text provides a comprehensive biblical, historical, and cultural perspective and addresses contemporary issues in church life.

Author : Robert K. Johnston
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441200908

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Reel Spirituality (Engaging Culture) by Robert K. Johnston Pdf

Increasingly, thinking Christians are examining the influential role that movies play in our cultural dialogue. Reel Spirituality successfully heightens readers' sensitivity to the theological truths and statements about the human condition expressed through modern cinema. This second edition cites 200 new movies and encourages readers to ponder movie themes that permeate our culture as well as motion pictures that have demonstrated power to shape our perceptions of everything from relationships and careers to good and evil. Reel Spirituality is the perfect catalyst for dialogue and discipleship among moviegoers, church-based study groups, and religious film and arts groups. The second edition cites an additional 200 movies and includes new film photos.

Author : Daivd K. Naugle
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802828170

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Reordered Love, Reordered Lives by Daivd K. Naugle Pdf

If we have a particle of sense, St. Augustine said, we realize that we all want to be happy. What's more, God actually designed human beings to crave and seek happiness. Why, then, is there so much unhappiness in the world? According to David Naugle, it's because, in our desperate quest, we're looking in the wrong places. Reordered Love, Reordered Lives explores a distinctly Augustinian theme that is supremely relevant for the twenty-first century. Naugle explains that if we love properly -- that is, if we love beginning with God and progressing to other humans, ourselves, and the world around us -- we will also liveproperly and, in so doing, will find our own true happiness. Packed with select quotes and references to popular music, literature, and other media -- and including provocative questions for discussion -- the book presents classic theological ideas in a conversational and edgy fashion. Naugle's refreshing take is sure to appeal to anyone searching for happiness -- which, in the end, is all of us.

Author : Timothy B. Cargal
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9780664236335

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Hearing a Film, Seeing a Sermon: Preaching and Popular Movies by Timothy B. Cargal Pdf

Author : Louise Nelstrop,Helen Appleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351765145

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Art and Mysticism by Louise Nelstrop,Helen Appleton Pdf

From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, they also held mystical potential, and likewise mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also filled with images of God that likewise refracts and reflects His glory. This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought and practice that underpin this artistic engagement with Western Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art and theology. The book features contributions from an international panel of leading academics, and is divided into four sections. The first section offers theoretical and philosophical considerations of mystical aesthetics and the interplay between mysticism and art. The final three sections investigate this interplay between the arts and mysticism from three key vantage points. The purpose of the volume is to explore this rarely considered yet crucial interface between art and mysticism. It is therefore an important and illuminating collection of scholarship that will appeal to scholars of theology and Christian mysticism as much as those who study literature, the arts and art history.

Author : Paul Louis Metzger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606085387

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New Wine Tastings by Paul Louis Metzger Pdf

This collection of essays provides samplings of a theological engagement of culture that Paul Louis Metzger has been developing over the years in his work as founder and director of The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins at Multnomah Biblical Seminary of Multnomah University. Metzger espouses an incarnational over against a predominantly worldview-oriented or market-driven theological approach to engaging culture, and situates his work in Trinitarian communal and co-missional thought forms. This volume of biblically and theologically framed and compassion-driven essays addresses such themes as postmodernity, structural evil, cultural genocide, sexuality, HIV/AIDS, the prison system, the global slave trade, and the arts. It will be welcomed by those analyzing and developing theological-cultural paradigms and engaging key issues in the contemporary setting.

Author : Christian Scharen
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441234438

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Broken Hallelujahs by Christian Scharen Pdf

Building on the success of One Step Closer: Why U2 Matters to Those Seeking God, Christian Scharen shows how to engage faith and culture through a wide range of popular music, including the blues, hip-hop, and rock. He examines artists such as Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Leonard Cohen, and Billie Holiday, offering a fresh, compelling theology of culture in conversation with C. S. Lewis that can look suffering and brokenness in the face because it knows of a love deeper than hate, a hope stronger than despair. Written engagingly yet with theological depth, this book will resonate with readers interested in the interface between pop culture, music, and theology, as well as with pastors and youth ministers.

Author : Edward N. McNulty
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664229504

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Faith and Film by Edward N. McNulty Pdf

Growing numbers of church leaders are discovering that many films are able to impact viewers with gospel truths almost as well as a good sermon. Ed McNulty, a former pastor and longtime reviewer of films, offers this guide to help church leaders enter into dialogue with contemporary films. McNulty carefully crafts a theology of movies and then provides practical suggestions for creating and leading movie discussions with groups. In addition, he provides people from all across the theological spectrum with a framework to understand whether the overall message of a film outweighs concerns over profanity, violence, or sex in the film. He concludes by introducing twenty-seven films and including provocative questions about each that will prepare leaders to assemble and facilitate a group. Popular films explored include The Color Purple; Crash; Hotel Rwanda; The Matrix; Million Dollar Baby; O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Shawshank Redemption.

Author : Hans-Peter Geiser
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610976343

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The Community of the Weak by Hans-Peter Geiser Pdf

Social postmodernism and systematic theology can be considered the new pair in some of the most creative discussions on the future of theological method on a global scale. Both in the academy and in the public square, as well as in the manifold local and pastoral moments of ministry and community social activism, the social, the postmodern, and the theological intermingle in engaging and border-crossing ways. The Community of the Weak presents a new kind of jazzy fundamental theology with a postmodern touch, using jazz as a metaphor, writing ethnographically messy texts out of the personal windows of lived experiences, combining fragments of autobiography with theological reconstruction. A comparative perspective on North American and European developments in contemporary systematic theology serves as a hermeneutical horizon to juxtapose two continents in their very different contexts. The author proposes a systematic and fundamental theology that is more jazzy, global, and narrative, deeply embedded in pastoral ministry to tell its postmodern story.

Author : T. M. Allen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532617997

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Heaven and the Popular Imagination by T. M. Allen Pdf

Popular culture continues to search the depths of the poetic imagination concerning heaven. It seems to be a constant theme in literature, film, and music, spanning genres throughout the Western world. Yet, some contemporary scholars suggest that all of these narratives are somewhat misguided and remain, at best, only partial constructions of a proper eschatology. The creative imagination in popular culture, especially in relation to the arts has often carried a less-than-trustworthy role in theology and philosophy. Heaven and the Popular Imagination analyzes a number of approaches within the theology of culture conversation to suggest that a hermeneutic of popular imagery can open up new horizons for understanding and challenging the role heaven plays in Christian theology. From ancient literature to popular music and films, heaven is part of the framework of our ecumenical imagining about beginnings and endings. Such a hermeneutic must encompass an interdisciplinary approach to theology.

Author : W. Jay Moon
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493411481

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Intercultural Discipleship (Encountering Mission) by W. Jay Moon Pdf

This addition to an acclaimed series brings cutting-edge research to bear on a topic of perennial interest: making disciples. The book looks at disciple-making from multiple cultures to help readers discover contextual approaches that are culturally relevant and biblically faithful. It emphasizes methods that are especially effective with contemporary converts and includes practical examples from around the world. Each chapter includes sidebars, discussion questions, an activity for discipling, and a case study. An appendix contains further suggestions and exercises for instructors.