In "The Culturally Savvy Christian" his incisive critique of contemporary culture and religion Dick Staub concludes that though it is influential, American popular culture is generally superficial (diversionary, mindless, and celebrity driven) spiritually delusional (moralistic, therapeutic, and deistic) and soulless (sustained not by art, craft, and ideas, but by the mad pursuit of profit propped up by marketing and technology). Similarly American Christianity has devolved into its own mindless, diversionary, and celebrity driven superficiality. Because humans are created in God's image with spiritual, intellectual, creative, moral, and relational capacities, we long for more, yet the true seeker faces the lose alternatives of a soul numbing culture and a vacuous Christianity lite. The renaissance we need in both faith and culture will originate in a deep spiritual renewal that restores God's image in us and creates a new breed of culturally savvy, thoughtful creatives who rekindle the spiritual, intellectual, and creative legacy of Christians as enrichers of culture.
- ISBN10 0787978930
- ISBN13 9780787978938
- Publish Date 13 April 2007
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 7 April 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Imprint Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English