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Playful, glad, and free : Karl Barth and a theology of popular culture /

This book offers a critical analysis and reinterpretation of Karl Barth's theology of culture--the least studied aspect of his work--revealing his significance for contemporary work in theology of culture by applying his approach to the study of popular culture and entertainment. Grounding the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: DeCou, Jessica (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2013]
Series:Emerging scholars.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Karl Barth's theology of culture
  • Geistproblem and Kulturproblem : Barth's response to Schleiermacher
  • "Serious" questions about "true words" in culture : Barth's approach to culture in CD IV/3
  • Re-creation and recreation : Barth's eschatological perspective on culture
  • Encounter in freedom, unity in play : Barth's hermeneutic of culture
  • Toward a Barthian theology of popular culture
  • Affirmation or abomination : Barth and popular entertainment
  • Summoned to play properly : honest work and the theologian of popular culture
  • "(Titles are hard)" : honest work and the task of popular entertainment.