The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

by Karen Swallow Prior Narrated by Susan Hanfield

Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Walter R. Strickland II

Readers are challenged to ask important questions to grasp the forces that shape us without our knowing.”

author of Biblical Critical Theory Christopher Watkin

Invites us to enjoy a more healthy and biblical imaginative life. A crucial book for anyone who wants to bring every faculty—including the imagination—under the lordship of Christ.”

Henry Reichman

This eye-opening book calls on evangelicals to examine their fundamental assumptions…It will also assist non-Christians, like me, whose image of the evangelical faith has been clouded by those same unexamined assumptions and unwelcome elements.”

author of Lifting the Veil Malcolm Guite

Offers contemporary Christians a chance for self-awareness, renewal, and hope.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940178277829
Publisher:	EChristian, Inc.
Publication date:	08/08/2023
Edition description:	Unabridged

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