Screening the sacred: theology and television (SMR#257)

Given that television is probably the “dominant story-telling medium” of early-twenty-first-century western culture, there is a profound need for religious communities to develop skills, critical methods, and interpretative frameworks to engage television with thoughtfulness, discernment, and wisdom. These are the aims of the essays in this volume of St Mark’s Review, with contributions from two of the world’s leading thinkers on television and theology, Kutter Callaway and Craig Detweiler, and a range of Australian scholars.
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