The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. …
Want to Read $ 14.66"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursuit of material prosperity."-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, too, is part of evangelicalism."-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
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2. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross
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3. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
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4. Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple
By: Scot McKnight
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5. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West
By: Andrew Wilson
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6. Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
By: Samuel James
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7. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
By: Russell D. Moore
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Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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9. Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
By: Christopher Watkin
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10. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
By: Karen Swallow Prior
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11. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
By: N.T. Wright
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Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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12. On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living
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Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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18. Reading for the Love of God
By: Jessica Hooten Wilson
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19. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
By: Kaitlyn Schiess
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21. Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
By: Sandra L. Glahn
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