Fred Sanders, Jason S. Sexton

Theology and California (eBook, PDF)

Theological Refractions on California's Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Californians Sanders and Sexton assemble leading voices and specialists both from within and without California for engagement with California's influential culture. Leading theologians and cultural critics are included alongside leading specialists in film studies and cultural critique, theological anthropology, missiology, sociology and history. Exploring California as a theological place, this book renders critical engagement with significant Californian religious and theological phenomena and the inherent theological impulses within major Californian cultural icons.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317011170
• Artikelnr.: 44782851

Autorenporträt

Fred Sanders is Professor in Biola University's great books program, the Torrey Honors Institute. With Oliver Crisp he is the coordinator of the annual Los Angeles Theology Conference, and he is a faculty member for the Los Angeles Bible Training School. An evangelical Protestant theologian with a passion for the great tradition of Christian thought, he holds a degree in art from Murray State University, an MDiv from Asbury Theological Seminary (Kentucky), and upon moving back to California earned a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley). Since 1999 he has taught at Biola University. Sanders has published four volumes of theological comic books, Dr. Doctrine's Christian Comix (InterVarsity Press, 1999), one academic monograph, The Image of the Immanent Trinity: Rahner's Rule and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Peter Lang, 2005), a more accessible volume engaging trinitarian theology, The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything (Crossway, 2010), and is author of the the volume on the Trinity in Zondervan Academic's New Studies in Dogmatics series. He co-edited Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory Christology (Broadman & Holman, 2007). His articles have appeared in Dialog: A Journal of Theology, Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture, Southwestern Journal of Theology, and The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology. Along with having reviewed books in Theology Today, Scottish Journal of Theology, the International Journal of Systematic Theology and First Things, he is also a popular blogger at Patheos's blog, The Scriptorium and also at the First Things blog Evangel. Jason S. Sexton is a fourth generation Californian who taught theology at Cambridge while a visiting scholar at Ridley Hall. He is currently a Research Associate at USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture, is a lecturer in the Honors Department at California State University, Fullerton, and is the Administrative Convener

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Jason S. Sexton; Part I Approaching California's Culture
Theologically; Chapter 1 The Enigma of California: Reflections on a
Theological Subject, Richard J. Mouw; Chapter 2 California, Localized
Theology, and Theological Localism, Fred Sanders; Chapter 3 Can Theology
Engage with California's Culture?, Jason S. Sexton; Part II California's
Culture in Ecclesial Perspective; Chapter 4 The Significance of the
California Missions in Californian Theology and Culture, Allen Yeh; Chapter
5 "I Have Adonis DNA": Californian Entertainment, Celebrity Culture, and
Evangelicalism, Monica Ganas; Chapter 6 In Pursuit of the Consumer Crown or
the Crucified Crown?, Matthew S. Farlow; Part III California's Culture in
Theological Perspective; Chapter 7 From the Beach Boys to Surfer's Chapel:
A Theology of California Surf Culture, Robert S. Covolo; Chapter 8 Silicon
Valley and the Spirit of Innovation: How California's Entrepreneurial Ethos
Bears Witness to Spiritual Reality, Bruce Baker; Chapter 9 Drive-By
Evangelism, the Growth in Gang Violence and Community Development, Paul
Louis Metzger; Part IV Is There a Theology of California?; Chapter 10 Is
There a Theology of California?, Fred Sanders; Chapter 11 Is There a
Theology of California? A Sociologist's Response, Richard Flory; Chapter 12
Is There a Theology of California? An Historian's Response, Richard
Pointer;