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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 261
EAN: 9780801031670
ISBN: 0801031672
Label: Baker Academic
Manufacturer: Baker Academic
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: March 01, 2007
Publisher: Baker Academic
Sales Rank: 30595
Studio: Baker Academic

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Everyday theology is the reflective and practical task of living each day as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. In other words, theology is not just for Sundays, and it's not just for professional theologians. Everyday Theology teaches all Christians how to get the theological lay of the land. It enables them to become more conscious of the culture they inhabit every day so that they can understand how it affects them and how they can affect it. If theology is the ministry of the Word to the world, everyday theologians need to know something about that world, and Everyday Theology shows them how to understand their culture make an impact on it. Engaging and full of fresh young voices, this book is the first in the new Cultural Exegesis series.

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- Everyday Theology
"Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends" by Kevin J. Vanhoozer is the study of the doctrines of the Scripture as they were developed within succeeding eras or within individual authors' literature, all during the framework of biblical chronology. A significant introduction by Vanhoozer lays out the hermeneutical method for engaging with culture. In this book, the art and science of interpreting cultures are the set of rules, guidelines, or principles for interpreting cultural texts and trends. "Everyday Theology" is a how-to-book, how to read cultural texts, and interpret trend. It sets forth the principles for understanding cultural hermeneutics along with how and why Christians should read culture. The book is not an encyclopedia of contemporary culture, nor is it a full-blown textbook of cultural hermeneutics. With an emphasis on both methodology and case study, it is well suited for ... Read More

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- Not So Everyday Theology
On the upside, the first chapter of Everyday Theology is worth the whole book; the rest of the chapters are a collection of Vanhoozer's cultural hermeneutic applied by students from his Cultural Hermeneutics course at Trinity Seminary. Vanhoozer turns his hermeneutical and linguistic savvy (cf. Is There Meaning in This Text?) to developing a framework for interpreting culture. He notes that the are cultural texts (products, forms, stuff) and cultural trends (intangible effects of cultural texts), both of which must be carefully interpreted if we are to redemptively engage our cultures.

Drawing on Mortimer Adler, he proposes that we understand the world in, behind, and in front of a cultural text. Strong echoes of Marshal McLuhan are present throughout.

On the downside, Vanhoozer imports too much lingusitic terminology for everyday readers (locutionary, perlocutionary, illocutionary) to communicate ... Read More

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- Full of Hope
Back in the late 60s it was common for even fundamentalists to use the popular music of the era as a vehicle for communicating the Gospel. Anyone here remember the Scott Ross Show? That was an exciting era. In this book Kevin & Co. present us with a practical (observable and not simply academic) framework for doing this same thing again. (Why this excites me so much is that it was this very behavior that came along with the Jesus Movement -- spell that R-E-V-I-V-A-L.) But I digress.

"Everyday Theology is not an encyclopedia of contemporary culture, nor is it a full-blown textbook of cultural hermeneutics. What it provides instead is a model for 'reading' culture theologically as well as a number of illustrative examples." (p. 10)

What will you gain from this book? First, if you're like many who've been out of touch with society in general, you'll get a snapshot of some important current ... Read More

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