Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports

Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports

<p>In recent years the United States has seen an influx of Christian athletes and coaches into big-time sports, as well as a heightened importance placed on sports in church programs and at Christian schools and colleges. However, as Shirl Hoffman critiques, a Christian vision of sport remains merely superficial—replete with prayers before free throws and praises after touchdowns but offering little, if any, alternative vision from the secular sports culture.</p> <p><i>Good Game</i> retells numerous fascinating stories from the world of ancient and contemporary sports and draws on the history of the Christian tradition to answer "What would it <i>really</i> mean to think Christianly about sport?"</p>