Christ and Sport: Reappropriating H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture Typology
Abstract
What is the relationship between Christ and sport? In this article I unpack five types of responses that Christians have offered to this question and examine how they correspond to the five approaches described in H. Richard Niebuhr’s classic work Christ and Culture. The primary goal is to offer a helpful heuristic to make sense of how Christians can think about sport. The article begins by clarifying two framing problems—one theological, one philosophical—that underlie the discussion. It then proceeds to describe the five types and the ways they are reflected in theological literature on sport.
Keywords:
- Keyword: Niebuhr
- Keyword: typology
- Keyword: interpretivism
- Keyword: sport
How to Cite:
Hoetmer, R., (2022) “Christ and Sport: Reappropriating H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture Typology”, Movement and Being: The Journal of the Christian Society for Kinesiology, Leisure and Sports Studies 7(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.7290/jcskls07qktf
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