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Playful, glad, and free

DeCou, Jessica,

Playful, glad, and free Karl Barth and a theology of popular culture / [electronic resource] : Jessica Decou. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 268 pages).) - Emerging scholars . - Emerging scholars. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago. Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-264) and index.

Introduction -- Karl Barth's theology of culture -- Geistproblem and Kulturproblem : Barth's response to Schleiermacher -- "Serious" questions about "true words" in culture : Barth's approach to culture in CD IV/3 -- Re-creation and recreation : Barth's eschatological perspective on culture -- Encounter in freedom, unity in play : Barth's hermeneutic of culture -- Toward a Barthian theology of popular culture -- Affirmation or abomination : Barth and popular entertainment -- Summoned to play properly : honest work and the theologian of popular culture -- "(Titles are hard)" : honest work and the task of popular entertainment.

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Barth, Karl, 1886-1968.


Religion and culture.
Christianity and culture.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

BR118.C8 / D437 2013