The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-LiteISBN: 978-0-470-34403-3
Paperback
256 pages
September 2008, Jossey-Bass
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In The Culturally Savvy Christian—his incisive
critique of contemporary culture and religion—Dick Staub
concludes that though it is influential, American popular culture
is generally superficial (diversionary, mindless, and
celebrity-driven) spiritually delusional (moralistic, therapeutic,
and deistic) and soulless (sustained not by art, craft, and ideas,
but by the mad pursuit of profit—propped up by marketing and
technology). Similarly American Christianity has devolved into its
own mindless, diversionary, and celebrity-driven superficiality.
Because humans are created in God's image with spiritual, intellectual, creative, moral, and relational capacities, we long for more, yet the true seeker faces the lose-lose alternatives of a soul-numbing culture and a vacuous Christianity-lite. The renaissance we need in both faith and culture will originate in a deep spiritual renewal that restores God's image in us and creates a new breed of culturally savvy, thoughtful creatives who rekindle the spiritual, intellectual, and creative legacy of Christians as enrichers of culture.