Overview
Christianity Today 2024 Book Award Finalist (Culture and the Arts) ""Provides plenty of fodder for those wishing to explore what evangelicalism is and reimagine what it might become. It's an eye-opener.""--Publishers Weekly ""Akin to enjoying a lively conversation over a cheering yet bracing cup of tea.""--Christianity Today (5-star review) ""A breathtaking reminder of just how powerful the evangelical imagination has been and how much is lost when we forfeit it.""--The Gospel Coalition Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. In this book, acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior examines evangelical history, both good and bad. By analyzing the literature, art, and popular culture that has surrounded evangelicalism, she unpacks some of the movement's most deeply held concepts, ideas, values, and practices to consider what is Christian rather than merely cultural. The result is a clearer path forward for evangelicals amid their current identity crisis--and insight for others who want a deeper understanding of what the term ""evangelical"" means today. Brought to life with color illustrations, images, and paintings, this book explores ideas including conversion, domesticity, empire, sentimentality, and more. In the end, it goes beyond evangelicalism to show us how we might be influenced by images, stories, and metaphors in ways we cannot always see.
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Author: Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Imprint: Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.666kg
ISBN: 9781587435751
ISBN 10: 1587435756
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 03 October 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
"Contents Introduction: Victorians, Evangelicals, and the Invitation 1. Made in His Image Imagination, Imaginaries, and Evangelicalisms 2. Awakening Mumford, MLK, Hurston, Hughes, and Other Poets 3. Conversion Language, Dr. Pepper, and Ebenezer Scrooge 4. Testimony Grace Abounding and ""Evangelically Speaking"" 5. Improvement The Puritan Work Ethic, Paradise Lost, and the Price of Progress 6. Sentimentality Sweet Jesus, Uncle Tom, and Public Urination 7. Materiality Jesus in the Window, the Virgin Mary on Grilled Cheese, Gingerbread Houses, and the Sacramentality of Church Space 8. Domesticity Angels and Castles and Prostitutes, Oh My! 9. Empire ""The White Man's Burden,"" His Man Friday, the Jesus Nobody Knows, and What Johnny Cash Really Knew 10. Reformation Pardon Me, Reckoning or Rip Van Winkle? 11. Rapture Or How a Thief Came in the Night but Left My Chick Tracts Behind"
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Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo), one of today's leading evangelical writers and commentators, is the award-winning author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books. She is a frequent speaker, a monthly columnist at Religion News Service, and has written for Christianity Today, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Vox. She is a research fellow with Comment, a founding member of the Pelican Project, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, and a senior fellow at the International Alliance for Christian Education. Prior lives with her husband in central Virginia.
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