RALPH C. WOOD, a professor of theology and literature at Baylor University, holds the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Comedy of Redemption; Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists (Notre Dame University Press)
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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Crisis Afflicting Church and Culture Alike 2. A Neo-Conservative Alternative 3. A Neo-Liberal Alternative 4. The Inadequacy of the Evangelical Engagement with Culture 5. The Challenge Facing the Church's Colleges 6. Creating a Christian Educational Culture 7. Christian Skepticism vs. Religious Sentimentality 8. The Ugly, the Beautiful, and the Holy in Christian Worship 9. A Christian Regard for Romance in an Eroticized World 10. The Outward Faithfulness of Inward Christian Piety Conclusion Notes Index
"[The Church's] task is not to create a counterculture, so much as a new culture based on one so ancient and nearly forgotten that it looks freshly minted."-from the Introduction