{"product_id":"the-vanishing-word-the-veneration-of-visual-imagery-in-the-postmodern-world-paperback","title":"The Vanishing Word: The Veneration of Visual Imagery in the Postmodern World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArthur W. Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs image everything? For many people in our culture, image and images are everything. Americans spend hours watching television but rarely finish a good book. Words are quickly losing their appeal. Arthur Hunt sees this trend as a direct assault on Christianity. He warns that by exalting imagery we risk becoming mindless pagans. Our thirst for images has dulled our minds so that we lack the biblical and mental defenses we need to resist pagan influences. What about paganism? Hunt contends that it never died in modern Western culture; image-based media just brought it to the surface again. Sex, violence, and celebrity worship abound in our culture, driving a mass media frenzy reminiscent of pagan idolatry. This book is a clear warning that the church is being cut off from its word-based heritage, and that we are open to abuse by those who exploit the image but neglect the Word. Thoughtful readers will find this a challenging call to be critical about the images bombarding our sense and to affirm that \"the Word is everything.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eArthur W. Hunt III is associate professor of communications at The University of Tennessee at Martin. His writings have been featured in \u003ci\u003eTouchstone, Modern Age, The Christian Research Journa\u003c\/i\u003el, and \u003ci\u003eExplorations in Media Ecology: The Journal of the Media Ecology Association\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSurviving Technopolis: Essays on Finding Balance in Our New Manmade Environments\u003c\/i\u003e (Pickwick Publishers) and serves on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eSecond Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, an online journal for critical thinking about technology and new media in light of the Christian tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 8.54 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45882695319749,"sku":"9781625642653","price":46.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/qRRJ3DFKmG9781625642653.webp?v=1771801832","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-vanishing-word-the-veneration-of-visual-imagery-in-the-postmodern-world-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}