The Culturally Savvy Christian
Subtitle: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: April 13, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780787978938
Subjects: Christian life & practice; Religion; Religion - Church History; Christianity - General; Religion / Christianity; Christian Life - General; Faith; Christianity; Christianity and culture; Popular culture; Religious aspects
Description: 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. -- Publisher.