The image of God in the human body : essays on Christianity and sports /
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| Imprint: | Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2008. |
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| Description: | v, 388 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7200406 |
Table of Contents:
- A brief history of Christianity and sport : selected highlights of a puzzling relationship / James A. Mathisen
- Sport and athletics in the New Testament era
- Sport in early and medieval Christianity
- The Puritans and James I
- Muscular Christianity and "sport builds character"
- D.L. Moody, the YMCA, and sport as a means to Christian conversion
- An interlude : fifty years of uncertainty
- Christianity and sport in the 1940s-50s : Gil Dodds, Billy Graham, Youth for Christ, and the forging of a powerful symbiotic alliance
- Fifty years later : religion and sport in a maturing relationship
- Christianity and sport : a closing assessment
- A Christian perspective on sport / Michael Wittmer
- Radical Christianity : Christ against culture
- Cultural Christianity : Christ of culture
- Synthesist Christianity : Christ above culture
- Dualist Christianity : Christ and culture in paradox
- Conversionist Christianity : Christ the transformer of culture
- The ambiguity of embodiment and sport : overcoming theological dichotomies / Doug Hochstetler, Peter Hopsicker, and Scott Kretchmar
- Background information on embodiment and sport in Christianity
- Brief conclusions on problems of embodiment, sport, games, and play
- The body, sport, games, and play in the kingdom
- Conclusions
- Created to play : thoughts on play, sport, and the Christian life / K. Erik Thoennes
- Introduction
- A personal quest
- A fear
- Why we must appreciate & understand play
- Defining play
- Play and competition
- Serious play
- Play in the Bible
- A playful God
- Play and the coming kingdom
- Sabbath
- Hopeful play
- The hope of the cross
- Heaven : the play of eternity
- Conclusions
- Competition as relationship : sport as a mutual quest towards excellence / Stuart Weir
- Idols in the stadium : sport as an 'idol factory' / John White
- Introduction
- Idolatry : the significance of this religio-ethical problem for Evangelicals and sport
- The nature of idolatry : what is idolatry?
- Idolatry and sport : a religious relationship
- Varieties of idolatry : different faces in the stadium
- The business and politics of idols : toward the service of power and money
- Performative idols : citius, altius, fortius
- Conclusion
- Sport as spectacle and the perversion of play / Mark J. Hamilton
- Escaping the gender trap : sport and the equality of Christ / Donald L. Deardorff II and Julie D. Deardorff
- Redefining human, redefining sport : the imago dei and genetic modification technologies / Tracy J. Trothen
- Some preliminary thoughts on philosophies of sports ministry and their literature / Ashley Null
- Ministry through athletes
- Ministry to athletes
- A concluding contrast
- A final common ground
- Reversing the curse : practicing the presence and presents of God in sport / Valerie J. Gin
- Practicing God's presence
- Practicing His presents
- Relationship with God restored
- Relationship with self restored
- Relationship with others restored
- Relationship with creation restored
- Advancing the kingdom : Shalom in sport / Timothy G. Gombis
- Introduction
- Original design : glory of God
- Sinfulness : improper functioning
- Salvation
- Embodying Shalom
- Church and sport / Graham Daniels and J. Stuart Weir
- St. Andrew the Great Church, Cambridge, England
- Kasr el Dobara Evangelical Church, Cairo, Egypt
- "Finding the right place" : professional sport as a Christian vocation / Ashley Null
- Christian vocation against cultural achievement
- Cultural achievement as Christian vocation
- Christian vocation above culture achievement
- Christian vocation and cultural achievement
- Christian vocation as transformer of cultural achievement
- Conclusion
- The prophet of Copenhagen conversing with competitive sport : serving God and man in sport : a divided allegiance / Cindy White
- An interview : how Kierkegaard might respond to the challenge of serving God alone while participating in competitive sport
- Living for the game or for the good
- The agony of decision : seek first the kingdom of God
- Kierkegaard's prayer (adapted for coaches and athletes).