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Jesus and Generation X
(Jesus at 2000 series)

VHS
75 minutes
BT303.2 .J551 1996

27th National Conference of Trinity Institute 1996
Based upon term papers which he has required in his courses at Harvard, Harvey Cox has made a study of Generation X and an analysis of their religious values. In summary his findings are as follows:

  • Generation X is suspicious of institutional religion. They find the varied portraits of Jesus present in the Church today bewildering and they are looking for contemporary resymbolizaton of Jesus.
  • They are the first generation to come of age in a religiously pluralistic society, so they are interested in how other religious traditions depict Jesus. This leads to overly exuberant eclecticism.
  • They are a picky, pragmatic generation, raised with a consumer mentality and inclined to shop for a user-friendly religion.

All of these characteristics lead to what Cox calls the cultural resymbolization of Jesus that goes on continuously in their music, poetry, and other forms of artistic expression.

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