The Vanishing Word: The Veneration of Visual Imagery in the Postmodern World - Couverture souple

Hunt III, Arthur W. W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1625642652 ISBN 13 : 9781625642653

Editeur : Wipf and Stock, 2013

Synopsis

Is image everything? For many people in our culture, image and images are everything. Americans spend hours watching television but rarely finish a good book. Words are quickly losing their appeal. Arthur Hunt sees this trend as a direct assault on Christianity. He warns that by exalting imagery we risk becoming mindless pagans. Our thirst for images has dulled our minds so that we lack the biblical and mental defenses we need to resist pagan influences. What about paganism? Hunt contends that it never died in modern Western culture; image-based media just brought it to the surface again. Sex, violence, and celebrity worship abound in our culture, driving a mass media frenzy reminiscent of pagan idolatry. This book is a clear warning that the church is being cut off from its word-based heritage, and that we are open to abuse by those who exploit the image but neglect the Word. Thoughtful readers will find this a challenging call to be critical about the images bombarding our sense and to affirm that "the Word is everything."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Arthur W. Hunt III holds a PhD in Communication from The University of Southern Mississippi and a Master of Arts in Religion from Reformed Theological Seminary. He is the author of two books, The Vanishing Word: The Veneration of Visual Imagery in a Postmodern World (2003) and Surviving Technopolis: Finding Balance in Our New Man-Made Environments (2013). His work has been featured in The Christian Research Journal, Touchstone magazine, Salvo, Modern Age, Modern Reformation, Eurozine, The American Conservative, The Front Porch Republic, and Explorations in Media Ecology. He currently serves on faculty at Augustine School, a classical Christian school in Jackson, Tennessee.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf and Stock
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1625642652
• ISBN 13: 9781625642653
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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