Free & Fit London Retreat - A Theology of Sport - By Lincoln Harvey
Thu, Jul 18
|East Barn and Farmhouse
Our Free & Fit London retreat weekend returns! Thursday 18th July to Saturday 20th July! Join us from 1pm on the Thursday to Saturday 9pm. We will be staying in our familiar countryside surroundings just outside of the city. Email us at faithandfitnesslondon@gmail.com for more details. F&F Team.
Time & Location
Jul 18, 2019, 1:00 PM – Jul 20, 2019, 9:00 PM
East Barn and Farmhouse, Wellbury Park, Hitchin SG5 3BP, UK
Guests
About the event
UK Retreat – A Brief Theology of Sport
About the Contributor(s): Lincoln Harvey is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at St Mellitus College, London.
Sport is extremely popular. This groundbreaking book explains why. It shows that sport has everything to do with our deepest identity. It is where we resonate with the most basic nature of reality. A Brief Theology of Sport sweeps across the fields of church history, philosophy, and Christian doctrine to draw readers into a creative vision of sport. The book begins by examining how the church has historically approached sport before turning to consider sport on the basis of the divine act of creation. In doing so, Harvey is able to distinguish sport from all other human activities by identifying it as a set-aside sphere in which the unnecessary-but-meaningful nature of life is celebrated. Harvey's constructive proposal sheds light on a wide range of issues, inc…