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March 15, 2004
Remember Revolve?
The magazine-style New Testament for girls?
Now there's ...
"Chicks, cash and cars" ????????????????????
Ritual paradigm for discussion:
1) At least they're doing something. What are Catholics doing? Huh?
2) But....does this presentation, although it might draw some in, really support an authentic faith that's geared towards ever-maturing and growing, rather than stuck in one's present state of life, waiting for your needs to be met?
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Comments
I'll put it this way -- "Fuel" makes me glad for the first time that I was raised with the line art of Vallotton.
Posted by: Michael Tinkler at Mar 15, 2004 9:04:26 AM
Another mind-boggling demonatration of the state of decay in evangelicalism.
At what point does the flaming sword come out from the Ark?
There are things that Catholics can take from evangelicalism - mainly in the area of exegetical scholarship. This kind of schlockkulture is not something that should be borrowed!
Posted by: Rinon Mavar at Mar 15, 2004 9:17:39 AM
The problem with this is the problem with "Christian rock" and Bible verses on T-shirts and all the rest of such things: there must be a correlation of dignity between the message and its medium, and our pop-culture, bereft of dignity by and large, is thus no fitting vehicle for the Gospel, period.
Such dignity as I speak of here does not have to mean "erudite," "patrician," or "complex." The parables of our Lord, often aimed at simple people and always drawing from His hearers' everyday world, did not for that lack in dignity because of the completely natural and uncontrived nature of the imagery our Lord evoked: real people doing real things.
Pop culture, by contrast, is one uninterrupted contrivance, and what it says about us is that we are plastic people living plastic lives! And while real people can embrace the Gospel, the denizens of pop-culture, even if they feel moved by something like Gibson's Passion, will never be able to come to real terms with the Gospel so long as they remain in their fabricated, brand-name, sound-bite, always splashy and sensational universe.
Posted by: Charles M. de Nunzio at Mar 15, 2004 11:58:28 AM
The problem with this is the problem with "Christian rock" and Bible verses on T-shirts and all the rest of such things: there must be a correlation of dignity between the message and its medium, and our pop-culture, bereft of dignity by and large, is thus no fitting vehicle for the Gospel, period.
Such dignity as I speak of here does not have to mean "erudite," "patrician," or "complex." The parables of our Lord, often aimed at simple people and always drawing from His hearers' everyday world, did not for that lack in dignity because of the completely natural and uncontrived nature of the imagery our Lord evoked: real people doing real things.
Pop culture, by contrast, is one uninterrupted contrivance, and what it says about us is that we are plastic people living plastic lives! And while real people can embrace the Gospel, the denizens of pop-culture, even if they feel moved by something like Gibson's Passion, will never be able to come to real terms with the Gospel so long as they remain in their fabricated, brand-name, sound-bite, always splashy and sensational universe.
Posted by: Charles M. de Nunzio at Mar 15, 2004 12:03:01 PM
Somehow, I don't think that Jesus spread the Good News using "bait and switch" tactics. This is not quite Paul "becoming all things to all people." Or is it?
Posted by: Fr. Brian Stanley at Mar 15, 2004 12:42:27 PM
Ok, it's schlock. But what Catholic dare cast the first stone? Visit your local Catholic (Bad)Arts and Gifts store before answering.
Posted by: Ken at Mar 15, 2004 1:38:45 PM
We are an unserious people living in an unserious age.
Unfortunately, the consequences of that are serious.
Posted by: James Freeman at Mar 15, 2004 1:47:43 PM
Charles and James,
Exactly!
Posted by: Rinon Mavar at Mar 15, 2004 5:11:48 PM
"Chicks, cash, and cars": is a hip way of talking about those three perennial tempters money, sex, and power. Well, if cars -- a status symbol -- are taken as a stand-in for power.
Posted by: RC at Mar 15, 2004 11:13:36 PM
They evangelize with bad art, we decorate our churches with it.
Posted by: Mark R at Mar 16, 2004 5:10:30 PM
