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Addicted to Mediocrity: Contemporary Christians and the Arts by Frank Schaeffer
2.0
I agree with a lot of Franky Schaeffer’s points in this book. Christian movies, by and large, are terrible. Christian novels are often poorly written, riddled with stock characters, and are peppered with forced moral/biblical(?) messages. Etc. etc.
However, I found myself increasingly frustrated by the fact that Mr. Schaeffer wasn’t giving concrete examples. He spoke in broad generalizations and made blanket statements about what Christians should and shouldn’t do. He also talked a lot about Christian art being inferior without giving readers any kind of rubric to judge artistic value. Many people will say that Christian music today is crap… OK, but why is it crap? This is what Mr. Schaeffer didn’t do very well.
In the last half of his book he does offer some helpful answers to certain questions. One of those questions involves where to learn more about the subject, in which he recommends about 10 books. I guess you could say this book Is a treatise that points readers towards deeper territory.
However, I found myself increasingly frustrated by the fact that Mr. Schaeffer wasn’t giving concrete examples. He spoke in broad generalizations and made blanket statements about what Christians should and shouldn’t do. He also talked a lot about Christian art being inferior without giving readers any kind of rubric to judge artistic value. Many people will say that Christian music today is crap… OK, but why is it crap? This is what Mr. Schaeffer didn’t do very well.
In the last half of his book he does offer some helpful answers to certain questions. One of those questions involves where to learn more about the subject, in which he recommends about 10 books. I guess you could say this book Is a treatise that points readers towards deeper territory.