James Calvin Davis

American Liturgy

Finding Theological Meaning in the Holy Days of US Culture

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How can celebrating the holy days of American culture help us to understand what it means to be both Christian and American? In timely essays on Super Bowl Sunday, Mother's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and other holidays of the secular calendar, James Calvin Davis explores the wisdom that Christian tradition brings to our sense of American identity, as well as the ways in which American culture might prompt us to discern the imperatives of faith in new ways. Rather than demonizing culture or naively baptizing it, Davis models a bidirectional mode of reflection, where faith convictions and cultural values converse with and critique one… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-72527-132-6
EAN: 9781725271326
Produktnummer: 35862127
Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 186 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

James Calvin Davis is the George Adams Ellis Professor of Liberal Arts and Religion at Middlebury College in Vermont. Among his other books are In Defense of Civility: How Religion Can Unite America on Seven Moral Issues That Divide Us (2010) and Forbearance: A Theological Ethic for a Disagreeable Church (2017).