Onward Christian athletes
Subtitle: turning ballparks into pulpits and players into preachers
By: Tom Krattenmaker.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780742562479; 9781442201293
Subjects: Sports -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Christian athletes -- United States/; Christianity and culture -- United States
Table of contents: title: On any Justice Sunday : evangelicals, pro sports, and the (conservative) campaign for Jesus; title: A cross on the logo : representing for God in the high-drama, high-profile world of major league sports; title: Faith coach : discipling athletes for a roster spot on God's team; title: Winning for Jesus (but finding him in the loss column) : the tricky relationship between evangelism and sports success; title: Church at the ballpark : baseball chapel and its exclusive theology in an age of growing religious diversity; title: Coors Field to eternity : faith days in major league baseball; title: For God, country, and the Republican Party : the conservative politics of Jesus' pro sports warriors; title: Domesticated Christianity : the political acquiescence of African American Christians in sports; title: A match made in heaven or hell : the dissonance between the values of Christianity and the values of big-time sports; title: The salvation of sports : getting it right in an emerging new era of faith in sports.