Binding: Hardcover
Description: There aren't many serious works of systematic theology which engage with Breaking Bad The Big Bang Theory Crazy Heart theories of capital and positive psychology as well as the Isenheim Altarpiece and Handel's Messiah. This lively contemporary study of salvation does precisely that. Christian doctrine cannot simply repeat what has gone before even as it recognises the value and richness of the traditions Christianity carries with it. Clive Marsh acknowledges this in exploring how doctrine interweaves with life experience and cultural consumption. A Cultural Theology of Salvation considers how salvation is to be understood and articulated now when the theme of 'redemption appears outside of Christianity in the arts and popular culture. Marsh also assesses whether contemporary interest in 'happiness has anything to do with salvation. The first part of the book sets the enquiry in the context of how theology operates as a discipline and the cultural climate in which theology has to be done. The second part offers a number of case - studies (in art music TV film positive psychology and economic life) exploring how the concerns of a doctrine of salvation are addressed directly and indirectly in Western culture. The third part distils the results of the case - studies in formulating a contemporary exposition of salvation and concludes by showing what this means in practice.
Title: A Cultural Theology Of Salvation
Author(s): Marsh Clive (Academic Head Of The Vaughan Centre For Lifelong Learning Academic Head Of The Vaughan Centre For Lifelong Learning University Of Leicester And International Research Consultant And Research Fellow Queen's Foundation For Ecumenical Theological Education Birmingham)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198811015
Pages: 262 Pages
Publication Date: 12/25/2018
Category: Popular Culture