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What Does the Bible Say?: A Critical Conversation with Popular Culture in a Biblically Illiterate World

What Does the Bible Say?: A Critical Conversation with Popular Culture in a Biblically Illiterate World

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Bible StudiesChristian LivingGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $27.00

ISBN10: 1498232191
ISBN13: 9781498232197
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: Apr 25 2017
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This book is a collaboration between a biblical scholar (Mary Ann Beavis) and a practical theologian (HyeRan Kim-Cragg) who are concerned with the way that the Bible is portrayed and interpreted in popular culture, including but not limited to the movies. This concern points to a need for a conversation, examining what the Bible actually says, in order to uncover transformations and distortions of the biblical stories in the wider culture--including Christian culture. Our conversation is counter-cultural, not in an oppositional way, but taking an alternative posture that aims to provide different insights by drawing from and closely looking at the Bible. The chapters take a Christian canonical approach, articulating what the Bible says (and doesn't say) with regard to culturally pervasive themes such as sin and salvation, Christ and Antichrist, heaven and hell, in contrast to popular understandings as disseminated in (primarily) film, advertising, television, etc. We hope that together we will open up fertile academic, ecclesial, and secular space for disclosing loaded cultural and ideological views towards offering positive and intriguing insights embedded in the Bible.

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