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The Evangelical Imagination

How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

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The Evangelical Imagination

Auteur(s): Karen Swallow Prior
Narrateur(s): Susan Hanfield
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Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis—and a lot of bad press.

In this book, acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior examines evangelical history, both good and bad. By analyzing the literature, art, and popular culture that has surrounded evangelicalism, she unpacks some of the movement's most deeply held concepts, ideas, values, and practices to consider what is Christian rather than merely cultural. The result is a clearer path forward for evangelicals amid their current identity crisis—and insight for others who want a deeper understanding of what the term "evangelical" means today.

This book explores ideas including conversion, domesticity, empire, sentimentality, and more. In the end, it goes beyond evangelicalism to show us how we might be influenced by images, stories, and metaphors in ways we cannot always see.

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This is a helpful addition to a growing number of books written about Evangelical history and culture in recent years. I particularly appreciated the thorough treatment of the concept of "social imaginaries" and the way that the Evangelical social imagination operates. The introduction alone is a powerful corrective to our Evangelical culture blindness! The history and literary analysis felt a little piecemeal at times. The author picks different ideas from the Enlightenment, Romantic, and Modern eras and effectively shows how they shape Evangelicalism, but she doesn't give much sense of how they interact with one another even though sometimes the different ideas seem to work against each other. But, then, social imagination is a messy affair and perhaps this piecemeal approach reflects the fact that we can and do maintain contradictions within ourselves. My least favourite parts were the moments when the author moved away from cultural analysis and tried to give prescriptions for the current problems in Evangelicalism. These sections felt shallow compared to the rest of the book, which perhaps reflects the fact that the author is, first and foremost, a professor of literature. That's not a bad thing - no book or author can be all things to all people and there are lots of books that provide potential solutions to our current mess. This is the only one I've read so far that tackles Evangelical art, and it does so effectively, so I'm appreciative for that!

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