Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse
Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports
Published on 1. July 2014
Book
Hardback
134 pages
978-1-4982-0569-6 (ISBN)
Description
Why do sports matter so much to so many people? And why should we care? Far from being a distraction or a trivial pastime, sports tell us deep truths about ourselves. Big-time sports are a particularly potent mirror for humanity--reflecting both our promising possibilities and our demonic distortions. Theologian (and football coach's wife) Marcia Mount Shoop invites you to take a closer look at the hold that sports have on us.
Touchdowns for Jesus takes you beneath the veil in some of the most challenging issues in sports today: fanaticism, sexism, racism, and abuse of power. And beneath the lifted veil you also encounter wisdom about how we can find our way back to what is most life-giving about sports. If you love sports, or if you just wonder why others do, Touchdowns for Jesus will give you a whole new way to view the games people play.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4982-0569-6 (9781498205696)
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Marcia W. Mount Shoop
Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse
Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports
E-Book
07/2014
Wipf and Stock Publishers
€17.49
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Persons
The Rev. Marcia W. Mount Shoop, PhD, is the author of Let the Bones Dance: Embodiment and the Body of Christ (2010) and a blogger on faith, family, and football at www.marciamountshoop.com. She and her husband, Coach John Shoop, have been in the world of big-time sports for over twenty years.