
Subversive
Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers
Crystal Downing(Author)
Fortress Press,U.S.
Published on 10. November 2020
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-5064-6275-2 (ISBN)
Description
"Shows how Sayers used edgy, often hilarious metaphors to ignite new ways to think about Christianity, shocking people into seeing the truth of ancient doctrine in a new light. Urging readers to reassess interpretations of the Bible that impede the cause of Christ, Sayers helps twenty-first-century Christians navigate a society increasingly suspicious of evangelical vocabularies and find new ways to talk and think about faith and culture. Ultimately, she will inspire believers, on both the right and the left, to evaluate how and why their language perpetuates divisive certitude rather than the hopeful humility of faith, and will show us all a better way forward"--Book jacket flap.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
507 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5064-6275-2 (9781506462752)
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E-Book
11/2020
Broadleaf Books
€19.49
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Person
Crystal Downing, PhD, is the Co-Director of the Marion E. Wade Center in Wheaton, Illinois, the preeminent archive in the world for published and unpublished documents by and about C.S. Lewis and six of his British influencers, including J.R.R. Tolkien and Dorothy L. Sayers. Her first book, Writing Performances, won an international award for outstanding Sayers scholarship. Before moving to Wheaton, she taught Romantic and Victorian literature at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.