Competing Spectacles
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Competing Spectacles

Treasuring Christ in the Media Age

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eBook - ePub

Competing Spectacles

Treasuring Christ in the Media Age

About this book

We live in a world full of shiny distractions, faced with an onslaught of viral media constantly competing for our attention and demanding our affections. These ever-present visual "spectacles" can quickly erode our hearts, making it more difficult than ever to walk through life actively treasuring that which is most important and yet invisible: Jesus Christ. In a journalistic style, Tony Reinke shows us just how distracting these spectacles in our lives have become and calls us to ask critical questions about what we're focusing on. The book offers us practical steps to redirect our gaze away from the addictive eye candy of the world and onto the Ultimate Spectacle—leading to the joy and rest our souls crave.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Newsletter Signup
  3. Endorsements
  4. Other Crossway Books
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Part 1 The Age of the Spectacle
  9. §1: Life inside the Digital Environment
  10. §2: Spectacles Defined
  11. §3: Distracted Spectacle Seekers
  12. §4: Image Is Everything
  13. §5: The Spectacle of the Self in Social Media
  14. §6: The Spectacle of the Self in Gaming
  15. §7: Spectacles of Tele-Vision
  16. §8: Spectacles of Merchandise
  17. §9: Politics as Spectacle
  18. §10: Terror as Spectacle
  19. §11: Ancient Spectacles
  20. §12: Every Nine Seconds
  21. §13: The Spectacle of the Body
  22. §14: The Church in the Attention Market
  23. Part 2 The Spectacle
  24. §15: Spectakils in Tension
  25. §16: Prynne’s Footnote
  26. §17: The World’s Greatest Spectacle
  27. §18: Is the Cross a Spectacle?
  28. §19: Two Competing Theaters
  29. §20: Spectators of Glory
  30. §21: The Church as Spectacle
  31. §22: The Church as Spectacle Maker?
  32. §23: A Day inside the Spectacle
  33. §24: Our Unique Spectacle Tensions
  34. §25: One Resolve, One Request
  35. §26: The Spectator before His Carving
  36. §27: A Movie So Good It Will Ruin You—Would You Watch It?
  37. §28: Resistible Spectacles
  38. §29: Summations and Applications
  39. §30: My Supreme Concern
  40. §31: A Beauty That Beautifies
  41. §32: The Visio Beatifica
  42. §33: Dis-Illusioned but Not Deprived