Addicted to Mediocrity
20th Century Christians and the Arts
by Franky Schaeffer

Softcover in very good condition with minor shelf wear and the previous owner's name and address written on the back free end paper. There is no other writing or highlighting.

127 pages, tenth printing 1984, ISBN 0891072144, Crossway Books

Original retail price: $5.95

Excerpt from the back cover:
In this provocative book, Franky Schaeffer shows how Christians today have sacrificed the artistic prominence they enjoyed for centuries and settled instead for mediocrity. The evidence for this sad state of affairs abounds. We are flooded with "Christian" doodads, trinkets, tee shirts, bumper stickers, etc., that use God's name as an advertising slogan -- "Things Go Better with Jesus" -- putting the Creator of the universe on the same level as soda pop! Moreover, Schaeffer writes, "Whenever Christians, and evangelicals in particular, have attempted to 'reach the world' through the media -- TV, film, publishing and so on  -- the thinking public gets the firm idea that, like soup in a bad restaurant, Christians' brains are best left unstirred"....

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