The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in ...
In "The Culturally Savvy Christian" - his incisive critique of contemporary culture and religion - Dick Staub concludes that though it is influenti...
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Mar 27, 2009
Thomas
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1st Chapter was a bit slow.
2nd Chapter is excellent. Really does a good job looking at the issues of Culture.
3rd Chapter might be good for someone with a low understanding of theology but was simplistic and not necessarily helpful.
I found the middle of the book a bit slow. However, I did walk away with many good thoughts.
The end of the book builds a case for confronting culture by not following after the artistic and creativeness of current culture by rather More...
2nd Chapter is excellent. Really does a good job looking at the issues of Culture.
3rd Chapter might be good for someone with a low understanding of theology but was simplistic and not necessarily helpful.
I found the middle of the book a bit slow. However, I did walk away with many good thoughts.
The end of the book builds a case for confronting culture by not following after the artistic and creativeness of current culture by rather More...
Feb 20, 2011
Sally
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The subtitle of this book sums it all up: "A Manifesto for deepening faith and enriching popular culture in an age of Christianity-Lite." My son in art school and I have had many interesting conversations about art and how most of what Christians produce is derivative and shallow. This book made a good case for reclaiming the arts and using them for God's glory, rather than isolating ourselves in our faith community.
May 01, 2009
Melissa
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Lot of really good discussion points in this book, but the author has an unfortunate tendency to beat each point to death. Several times. With a good editor this book might have made a really nice three-part magazine article or blog post... but at +200 pages the author comes off in many cases as part grumpy-old-man and part 60s throw-back trying to be cool with the kids.
Dec 01, 2008
Kathryn
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I found this book very inspiring. Based on the idea that we are caught between a popular culture attempting to build art without God and a religious culture that believes in a God disinterested in art, Dick Staub maintains that in order to make a difference in the arts/culture we must be serious about faith, savvy about culture and skilled at relating the two in order to fulfill our calling to be a loving transforming presence in the world. It is not enough to simply avoid the inappropriate, we
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Aug 07, 2007
Erika
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dick staub is smart. he knows the power of culture and why christ-followers need to pay attention to it, not ignore it or create a christian subculture. the problem, however, is that his answer to combatting the rise/demise of culture is someone else's idea. he steals the thunder from richard foster's spiritual disciplines and references all of them, like they are his own original idea. i get why the spiritual disciplines will change culture: transformation of a widespread population occurs when
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Jan 23, 2009
Robin
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A savvy look at how and why Christians should engage in dialogue over popular culture and be promoting the best in the fine arts.
Apr 24, 2008
Brian
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the 1st half of the book is excellent. good for people turned off to christianity or people who are christians who need to stop turning people off to christianity. the 2nd half of the book...you'd be better off putting it down and picking up FOSTER'S book on DISCIPLINE or any C.S. Lewis stuff.
Jul 08, 2008
Only about a chapter in, and then I started another book (bad Amy...). We'll see when I get back to this one.
Recommended by Julie.
Recommended by Julie.
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