Oasis of imagination : engaging our world through a better creativity.: engaging our world through a better creativity. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Authors: Turnau, Ted
• Contents: Gratitude and Acknowledgements Introduction PART I - THE CASE FOR OASES ; CHAPTER ONE - Why Engage Culture? Calling, Holiness, and the New Creation; CHAPTER TWO - How Not to Engage Post-Christian Culture: the Path of Culture Warring; CHAPTER THREE - How Not to Engage Post-Christian Culture (When Actually You Should): the Path of Pietistic Withdrawal; CHAPTER FOUR - How to Engage Post-Christian Culture: the Path of Cultural Creativity (Exploring Oasis-Building) PART II - FRAMING A MYSTERY: WHAT IS THE IMAGINATION? ; CHAPTER FIVE - Framing a Mystery, Part I: A Biblical Theology of Imagination; CHAPTER SIX - Framing a Mystery, Part II: The Testimony of (Human) Nature about the Imagination PART III - SHARPENING OUR FOCUS: CONSIDERING CHRISTIAN IMAGINATION AND ART ; CHAPTER SEVEN - Contours of the Christian Imagination; CHAPTER EIGHT - Christian Art and the Pitfalls that Derail It PART IV - THE CHRISTIAN IMAGINATION DONE RIGHT: EXPLORING SUBVERSIVE CULTURAL RESONANCE ; CHAPTER NINE - Towards a Subversive Christian Popular Culture: Learning from the Blues; CHAPTER TEN - Dark, Ferocious, Honest: The Music of David Eugene Edwards; CHAPTER ELEVEN - Sho Baraka: Speaking Truth and Hopeful Protest to Church Family and Beyond; CHAPTER TWELVE - Being Present in the Broken Dance: The Improvisational, Pointed Art of Ruth Naomi Floyd; CHAPTER THIRTEEN - "Becoming Transparent": Sharing Pain and Hope in That Dragon, Cancer; CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Contagious Evil and Hope against Hope: Tolkien's Middle-Earth; CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Rumors of Grace in the Christ-Haunted World of Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film About Love PART V - REFORMING, REFRESHING, AND SUSTAINING THE IMAGINATIVE LIFE OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOR THE COMMON GOOD ; CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Worship as a Resource for Shaping Imaginations; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - The Artist as Resource for Church and World: Zookeeper of the Imagination and Loving Cultural Guerrilla; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Bridging the Chasm: The Christian Community as Resource for Creatives CONCLUSION: ENDGAME
• Publisher Details: Nottingham : IVP
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (496 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 261.57; Christianity and the arts; Creative ability -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789744774
• Related ISBNs: 9781789744750
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