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  • Reframing Theology and Film

    New Focus for an Emerging Discipline

    Series series Cultural Exegesis
    The connection between theology and film is a hot topic in the academy and the church. But research and writing on methodology and hermeneutics is lacking. This comprehensive collection identifies the overlooked or undervalued areas in the current discussions of film and theology. Including contributions from the leaders in the field, Reframing Theology and Film helps deepen the conversation while ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Senses of Devotion

    Interfaith Aesthetics in Buddhist and Muslim Communities

    Series Book 7 - Art for Faith's Sake
    This ethnographic study focuses on the religious imagery and practices of a sample of Buddhist temples and Muslim mosques in the greater Los Angeles area. As a way of expanding interfaith dialogue, it is framed as a conversation between the largely Christian researchers and the seventy-five respondents, who were asked about the images, space, and practices of their religious experience. From the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hip-Hop Redemption

    Finding God in the Rhythm and the Rhyme

    Series series Engaging Culture
    Hip-hop culture is experiencing a sea change today that has implications for evangelism, worship, and spiritual practices. Yet Christians have often failed to interpret this culture with sensitivity. Sociologist, preacher, pop-culture expert, and DJ Ralph Watkins understands that while there is room for a critique of mainstream hip-hop and culture, by listening more intently to the music's story ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Visual Faith

    Art, Theology, and Worship in Dialogue

    Series series Engaging Culture
    How can art enhance and enrich the Christian faith? What is the basis for a relationship between the church and visual imagery? Can the art world and the Protestant church be reconciled? Is art idolatry and vanity, or can it be used to strengthen the church? Grounded in historical and biblical research, William Dyrness offers students and scholars an intriguing, substantive look into the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Facts on the Ground

    A Wisdom Theology of Culture

    Starting with the fraught and often contested role of Christian participation in contemporary culture, and in the light of the chaotic challenges of recent events, William Dyrness develops a biblical theology of cultural wisdom, both its poetics and its practice, as a way of making sense both of these human cultural challenges, and of God's presence on the way to the New Creation. Making use of ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Senses of the Soul

    Art and the Visual in Christian Worship

    Series Book 1 - Art for Faith's Sake
    Senses of the Soul explores the way art and visual elements are incorporated into Christian worship. It incorporates research conducted in Los Angeles congregations. Through extensive interviews in a sample of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox congregations it looks into the way visual elements actually become part of the experience of worship. By looking at attitudes and experiences of beauty, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of Protestant Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe

    Calvin's Reformation Poetics

    The aesthetics of everyday life, as reflected in art museums and galleries throughout the western world, is the result of a profound shift in aesthetic perception that occurred during the Renaissance and Reformation. In this book, William A. Dyrness examines intellectual developments in late Medieval Europe, which turned attention away from a narrow range liturgical art and practices and towards a ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Insider Jesus

    Theological Reflections on New Christian Movements

    Christianity Today's 2017 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Missions/Global ChurchAmidst the variegated spread of global Christianity, followers of Jesus are showing up in unexpected places. Today we hear of culturally embedded insider movements, Jesus followers in the folds and creases of Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and other cultural fabrics. They elude our conventional theological categories and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecclesial Identities in a Multi-Faith Context

    Jesus Truth-Gatherings (Yeshu Satsangs) among Hindus and Sikhs in Northwest India

    Series Book 22 - American Society of Missiology Monograph Series
    When Hindus and Sikhs become followers of Christ, what happens next? Should they join Christian churches that often look and feel very unfamiliar to them? Or to what degree can or should they remain a part of their Hindu/Sikh communities and practices? Uncomfortable with the answers that were provided to them by Christian leaders in northwest India, six followers of Christ began Yeshu satsangs ... Read more

    $26.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Into the Dark

    Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century

    Series series Cultural Exegesis
    In this book, Craig Detweiler examines forty-five films from the twenty-first century that resonate theologically--from the Lord of the Rings trilogy to Little Miss Sunshine--offering groundbreaking insight into their scriptural connections and theological applications.Detweiler writes with the eye of a filmmaker, leads Hollywood and religion initiatives at Fuller Seminary, and even came to faith ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • An Ethic of Hospitality

    The Pilgrim Motif in Hebrews and the Refugee Problem in Kenya

    Series Book 6 - Contrapuntal Readings of the Bible in World Christianity
    In our increasingly xenophobic world, countries are turning away refugees and immigrants. Based on the situation in Kenya, this book offers a countercultural ethic of hospitality and welcome to the stranger, an ethic fraught with dangers and yet filled with great opportunities for transforming our world. Drawing on the scriptural pilgrim motif and specifically on the book of Hebrews, this study ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Space Between

    A Christian Engagement with the Built Environment

    Series series Cultural Exegesis
    Outreach Magazine**'s 2012 Resource of the Year Award Winner2012 Book of the Year Award,** Foreword MagazineThe entire material world can be divided between the Natural Environment and the Built Environment. Over the past forty years, the Natural Environment has received more attention of the two, but that is beginning to change. With a renewed interest in "place" within various academic ... Read more

    $24.49 USD