The Culturally Savvy Christian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Culturally Savvy Christian write by Dick Staub. This book was released on 2008-09-09. The Culturally Savvy Christian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Beyond Homelessness
Beyond Homelessness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Homelessness write by Steven Bouma-Prediger. This book was released on 2008-06-03. Beyond Homelessness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a brilliant use of metaphor that makes clear why the world leaves us feeling so uneasy!
Cross-Cultural Servanthood
Cross-Cultural Servanthood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cross-Cultural Servanthood write by Duane Elmer. This book was released on 2009-08-20. Cross-Cultural Servanthood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With careful biblical exposition and keen cross-cultural awareness, Duane Elmer offers principles and guidance for avoiding misunderstandings and building relationships in ways that honor people in other cultures.
Culture Making
Culture Making - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture Making write by Andy Crouch. This book was released on 2023-09-12. Culture Making available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The only way to change culture is to create culture. Andy Crouch says we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators God designed us to be. In this expanded edition of his award-winning book he unpacks how culture works and gives us tools to partner with God's own making and transforming of culture.
The Dangers of Christian Practice
The Dangers of Christian Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dangers of Christian Practice write by Lauren F. Winner. This book was released on 2018-01-01. The Dangers of Christian Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenging the central place that "practices" have recently held in Christian theology, Lauren Winner explores the damages these practices have inflicted over the centuries Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculate practices that will definitionally train Christians in virtue and that can't be answerable to their histories. Is there, for instance, an account of prayer that has anything useful to say about a slave-owning woman's praying for her slaves' obedience? Is there a robustly theological account of the Eucharist that connects the Eucharist's goods to the sacrament's central role in medieval Christian murder of Jews? Arguing that practices are deformed in ways that are characteristic of and intrinsic to the practices themselves, Winner proposes that the register in which Christians might best think about the Eucharist, prayer, and baptism is that of "damaged gift." Christians go on with these practices because, though blighted by sin, they remain gifts from God.
