The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis by Karen Swallow Prior (Brazos Press, 2023). The unexamined life, according to Socrates, is not worth living. Karen Swallow Prior might say something similar about the unexamined faith.
I don't mince words when I say this is one of the most important books I've read in the last 5 years. Koyzis' Political Visions and Haidt's The Righteous Mind find easy company with Swallow's work. They are necessary for peeling back the layers of rhetoric and repeated propaganda that has been endemic to the surface layer arguments made by religious political elites. Swallow delves deeper than "worldview" and offers something altogether different.
I don't mince words when I say this is one of the most important books I've read in the last 5 years. Koyzis' Political Visions and Haidt's The Righteous Mind find easy company with Swallow's work. They are necessary for peeling back the layers of rhetoric and repeated propaganda that has been endemic to the surface layer arguments made by religious political elites. Swallow delves deeper than "worldview" and offers something altogether different.
I own a copy of this and am SO looking forward to reading it. Your review just solidified that anticipation!
Also... way to bury the BIG news about your forthcoming book! How incredibly exciting! Congratulations. ❤️