How should Christians address specific problems, controversies,
and crises in communication today? By looking at influential
Christian thinkers throughout history, we can identify wisdom that
enriches us today in practical ways.
Words and Witnesses explores various influential Christian thinkers
and theologians from across church history in order to expand
our contemporary conversations in communication studies and
media theory. Individual chapters written by contributing scholars
focus on major Christian thinkers, starting with Athanasius, St.
Augustine, and John Chrysostom, moving through the Middle
Ages to address figures such as Anselm, Nicholas of Cusa, Teresa
of Lisieux, and arriving in the present with reflections on the work
of John Howard Yoder, C. S. Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham
Kuyper, and Desmond Tutu, among others.
Each chapter delves into how the contemporary church, and
scholars of media, can turn to these influential Christian thinkers
as resources for addressing specific problems in communication
today. By analyzing church practices, doctrine, and biblical texts
this book provides the church with resources and inspiration to
communicate in distinctly Christian ways.
