Scott Young

A Sacred Look: Becoming Cultural Mystics

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Sister Nancy, in A Sacred Look: Becoming Cultural Mystics, offers a monumental contribution to the literature of spiritual formation and theology of film. . . . This masterful examination of entertainment art as theological source in the service of mysticism deserves wide circulation and a long shelf life.”

New Creation

Theology

“Rodney Clapp has done it again. He has paired a rigorous Eschatological Imagination with the ambiguities of apocalyptic times. His insistence on humans being story manufacturers who are desperate to experience and interpret those stories is not a new revelation, but his amplification of the critical importance of narrative is noted and appreciated. Combining insights from popular culture, Scripture, Church History, with a Pacifist Kingdom Theology, Clapp issues a primer that instructs and inspires. More than a standard operating primer, he has proposed a ‘guide for the perplexed’ and a ‘manifesto’ for flourishing in manically disturbed times. As one who has recently been through ‘the valley of the shadow of death,’ I found reading New Creation a witness to the Good News generating life in the ruins and signposts in a strange land (Walker Percy). This is theological reflection that is both richly informed and eminently accessible.”