Playful, Glad, and Free
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Jessica DeCou is visiting lecturer in theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She earned her Ph.D. in theology at the University of Chicago and is a former Lilly Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. This volume is a revised version of a dissertation completed at the University of Chicago under the direction of Kathryn Tanner.

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"Eberhard Jungel once described Karl Barth as the happiest theologian of our age. But the playfulness of Barth's theology has never fully been explored - until now. In this wonderfully alert and exuberant study, Jessica DeCou develops a full-blown Barthian theology of popular culture. Drawing on Barth's understanding of work and play, she argues that the theologian's job is to play with popular culture in a way that respects the proper freedom and limits of cultural production. This is not only a creative and exciting new reading of Barth, but also an invitation to a more rigorous and more generous engagement with the everyday materials of popular culture." Benjamin Myers Charles Sturt University, Sydney, Australia "Jessica DeCou's work is a rare combination of sustained theological ingenuity, a discerning eye for pop culture illustration, and an engaging appreciation for comedy. Serious yet highly readable, for scholars and for students." Tom Beaudoin Fordham University

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