{"product_id":"the-evangelical-imagination-how-stories-images-and-metaphors-created-a-culture-in-crisis-hardcover","title":"The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Swallow Prior\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Provides plenty of fodder for those wishing to explore what evangelicalism is and reimagine what it might become. It's an eye-opener.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrought to life with color illustrations, images, and paintings, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Thoughtful, elegantly written, literate, and timely\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Evangelical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior analyzes the literature, art, and popular culture that has surrounded evangelicalism and unpacks some of the movement's most deeply held concepts, ideas, values, and practices. She shows that understanding what the term \"evangelical\" means today means understanding not only evangelicalism's faith commitments but also the images, metaphors, assumptions, and stories that have cultivated evangelical culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Prior is among the most helpful Christian literary critics writing today. Her call for the reformation of evangelicalism is a call to repent, to allow new metaphors and analogies to drive us to more faithfully read and put into practice the Scriptures. An insightful work of love that aids a holy transformation of our imaginations.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eTish Harrison Warren\u003c\/b\u003e, Anglican priest and author of \u003ci\u003eLiturgy of the Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePrayer in the Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A marvelous book--thoughtful, elegantly written, literate, and timely. An evangelical herself, Prior has done a masterful job of identifying the unstated assumptions that have shaped evangelical Christianity. American evangelicalism is in crisis; \u003ci\u003eThe Evangelical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e helps us to understand why and what needs to be done to make it an instrument of grace in a world that desperately needs it.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003ePeter Wehner\u003c\/b\u003e, contributing writer, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As an artist and follower of Jesus often falling into the gaps and fractures of the church and the world, I found this book to be a refreshing and eye-opening guide to navigating beyond the borderlands. Sanctified imagination is critical in developing as the body of Christ, in being the harbingers of hope and creators of beauty, and Prior is one of the most trusted voices to help us find our thriving.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eMakoto Fujimura\u003c\/b\u003e, artist and author of \u003ci\u003eArt and Faith: A Theology of Making\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"This book brings together the history of evangelicalism, Prior's expertise in Victorian literature, and sensitive analysis of the present moment into an indictment of the 'evangelical imagination, ' but an indictment with hope because of evangelical engagement with the gospel.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eMark Noll\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA History of Christianity in the United States and Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Swallow Prior\u003c\/b\u003e (PhD, SUNY Buffalo), one of today's leading evangelical writers and commentators, is the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOn Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a frequent speaker, a monthly columnist at Religion News Service, and has written for \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVox.\u003c\/i\u003e She is a contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eComment\u003c\/i\u003e, a founding member of the Pelican Project, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, and a senior fellow at the International Alliance for Christian Education. Prior lives with her husband in central Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772456993056,"sku":"9781587435751","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5762b2350a3bac41758ea5ce8ad9c799.webp?v=1780406116","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-evangelical-imagination-how-stories-images-and-metaphors-created-a-culture-in-crisis-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}