Good Game : Christianity and the Culture of Sports
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1481314858
ISBN-13
9781481314855
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Imprint
Baylor University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 15th, 2020
Print length
356 Pages
Weight
635 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 2.30 cms
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Christian life & practiceChristian life and practiceSport: generalSports & outdoor recreation
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In this thoughtful, narrative-driven exploration, Shirl Hoffman retells numerous fascinating stories from the world of ancient and contemporary sports and draws on the history of the Christian tradition as he seeks to answer the question ""What would it mean to think Christianly about sport?
In recent years the United States has seen an influx of Christian athletes and coaches into big-time sports, as well as a heightened importance placed on sports in church programs and enormous platforms for intercollegiate sports at Christian schools and colleges. However, as Shirl Hoffman critiques, a Christian vision of sport remains merely superficial--replete with prayers before free throws and praises after touchdowns but offering little if any alternative vision from the secular sports culture. Far from being the kind of life-affirming, faith-affirming events that they could be, games played in Christian college gymnasiums, for example, too often end up as mockeries of the faith statements given prominence in their mission statements.
Here, in this thoughtful, narrative-driven exploration, Hoffman retells numerous fascinating stories from the world of ancient and contemporary sports and draws on the history of the Christian tradition as he seeks to answer the question "What would it mean to think Christianly about sport?
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