Blessed Are the Uncool: Living Authentically in a World of ShowInterVarsity Press, 20 sept. 2009 Admit it: you want to be cool. Cool is a destination: everyone else has arrived, but you can't seem to catch up. Cool is a security blanket: you wear it ragged and hide beneath its tatters. Cool is a coping mechanism: you're leaning on it, and it keeps breaking down on you. Sooner or later, you'll count yourself among the uncool: in those moments when everybody gets the joke but you, when the new kid's swagger leaves you self-conscious, when your friends invite you to do what you swore you'd never do. In those moments God sees you and calls you blessed. In Blessed Are the Uncool Paul Grant deconstructs the cultural phenomenon of cool, an ever-elusive, exclusionary act of perpetual rebellion for rebellion's sake. A life spent chasing after cool is exposed for the fickle, fruitless and ultimately inauthentic life that it is. In its place God offers you community: where exclusion is replaced with love, rebellion is redeemed with hope, and your longings are answered with faith that in Christ, God is reconciling this uncool world to himself. |
Table des matières
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Definitions and Contradictions | 25 |
Culture and Community | 37 |
Rebellion Individualism and Assimilation | 49 |
THE STUFF OF REAL LIFE | 63 |
Faith Hope and Love Aint Cool | 65 |
Losing Our Cool in the Church the Family and the Heart | 81 |
When to Care What the World Thinks | 94 |
Reconciling the World | 109 |
Inherit the Earth | 120 |
Notes | 138 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Blessed Are the Uncool: Living Authentically in a World of Show Paul Grant Aucun aperçu disponible - 2006 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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Page 17 - It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness, — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.