A few more books. . . and Dashboard Confessional

Fore some reason I started listening to Dashboard Confessional again today. Kinda missed it.
here are the books I'm working through or have read in the past few months. This is taken from my reading summary for class. don't mind the reviews.

Oberbrunner, Kary. 2008. The Fine Line. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. 229 pages.

Kary, who calls himself a “Recovering Pharisee”, discusses what it means to walk the fine line between becoming too much like the culture, yet still being relevant to culture. He creates a dichotomy between Separatists, Conformists, and Transformists.

Crouch, Andy. 2008. Cutlure making: Recovering our creative calling. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press. 281 pages.

Andy Crouch reminds us that the church is called to be cultivators of culture and that we should be creating local culture that perhaps can ascend the economies of scale for a larger impact on the world.

Hipps, Shane. 2005. The hidden power of electronic culture: How media shapes faith, the gospel, and church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. 176 pages.

Hipps gives us a historical view of how media has shaped not only the way we interact with products, but how we have come to deal with faith, the gospel and with our church communities. He acknowledges the difference between knowledge as a building and knowledge as a web, this being seen as the modern/postmodern dichotomy of interaction with knowledge.

Rollins, Peter. 2006. How (not) to speak of god. Brewster, Mass: Paraclete Pr. 152 pages.

In how not to speak of God Rollins give us, in the first half of the book, a deconstructive model of how to speak of God. He takes on theology, and especially the idea of “right thinking” versus “thinking the right way.” The first section was great, I lost a bit of interest in his “Orthopraxy” section. He gave many examples of putting his philosophy/theology to work.

Dark, David. 2002. Everyday apocalypse : The sacred revealed in radiohead, the simpsons, and other pop culture icons. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press. 160 pages.

With his definition of “Revelation”  firmly in place,  Dark walks us through many pop culture icons. From the Simpson to Flannery O’Conner, he shows how we can find truth in many great works. I was especially taken with his discussion of the Gargoyle and the Steeple. While not his idea, it was Malcolm Muggeridge’s, I deeply resonated with it.

Sine, Tom. 2008. The new conspirators: Creating the future one mustard seed at a time. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Pr. 304 pages.

Sine, in his journalistic fashion, takes a look at what is happening in the emerging, missional, mosaic, and monastic movements in the church today. He also spends time “taking seriously” the times in which we live and what these “new conspirators” are undertaking.

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