Category: Pop Culture and Theology
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Triperspectivalism and the Movies (A)
[This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] This little mini-series is basically my paper from ETS, titled “Using John Frame’s Theological Methodology in Film Analysis.” I may cut out some explanatory footnotes here and there, but I’d like any feedback you have to offer me. This is a work in progress and…
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The Zeitgeist’s New Prophet
In case you have been somewhat technologically challenged over the past few weeks, here is how we got to today. I had originally planned on reading the book and writing a semi-review of it, but when I saw how long Kevin DeYoung’s is, I decided there might not be much left to say. I will…
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Love May Win, But So Does An Effective Marketing Campaign
Since it was a Saturday, presumably the meetings weren’t too much of a problem (image via). I would have been interested to see how things panned out on a weekday. Let’s consider the flow of events: Friday: This video, made by HarperCollins to promote an upcoming book is released to relatively little fanfare Saturday @1145:…
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Determining Your Reformed Quotient
In their Younger, Restlesser, Reformeder, Ted Kluck and Zach Bartels offer the necessary equation to figuring out your true Reformed street cred, or as they call it, your Reformed Quotient. Hopefully you can tell from the cover on the right this a work of satire, but just in case, this is very short little book…
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10 Good Non-theological Books I Read In 2010
As a kind of companion post to the last one, here are the best non-theology books I read this past year. In a way though, they are not without theological implications (one of which I discussed here). Particularly interesting in this regard are the books by Klosterman, which involve some very penetrating analyses of culture…
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Gladiator and Ethical Paradox
For research on my thesis, I just finished working through Brian Godawa’s Hollywood Worldviews. I may post a more thorough review at some point, but in one of the closing chapters on spirituality in the movies, he makes a very good point about what many people talk about today concerning non-religious ethics. He quotes at…
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The Goodness of Inequality
Perhaps you’ve seen these bumper stickers around in the past few weeks/months. I recently just figured out what they meant. Don’t ask me to clarify how I got this notion, but for some reason I was associating these with Sweden (probably because of the colors). Only with a little reflection did I realize, “Oh wait.…
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Hipster Christianity
While I sat in a Starbucks in Orlando reading this book back in early August, I had not idea how much attention it would later get. I should have realized though that a book titled Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide would definitely generate a buzz. Here a just a few reviews and interactions floating…
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Perspectives on Glenn Beck
It’s not really my goal to be overtly political on this blog, but after reading Calvin and Commerce earlier this summer, and eventually planning on reading Calvin in the Public Square as well as Calvin on Culture I started feeling that part of aspiring to be a theologian involves applying God’s word to politics. Don’t…