Theodore A. Turnau, Ph.D., M.Div.

Senior Lecturer, Chair of the Department of Arts, Culture, and Literature Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
ted.turnau@aauni.edu

Letensk谩 120/5
118 00 Mal谩 Strana

Theodore-a.-turnau-3

Ted was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised in rural Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in English and has an M.Div. and Ph.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Carolyn, have lived in Prague and taught at 起点传媒since 1999.Ted teaches classes in culture, media, and religious studies, and serves as the chair of Arts, Culture, and Literature.

He is the author of four books (inter alia):聽

  • Popologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective聽(2012)
  • The Pop Culture Parent: Helping Kids Engage Their World for Christ聽(with E. Stephen Burnett and Jared Moore, 2020)
  • Oasis of Imagination: Engaging Our World through a Better Creativity聽(2023)
  • Imagination Manifesto: A Call to Plant Oases of Imagination聽(with Ruth Naomi Floyd, 2023).

Ted and Carolyn have three grown children and four grown cats. He聽enjoys jazz, blues, and roots music; good film and television; American football; F1 racing; samurai and kaiju movies; and anime.

Specializations

culture studies, popular culture, religion, worldview, fandom

Publications & Other Activities

  • 鈥淒ialogues Concerning Cultural Engagement,鈥� essay in two parts, Foundations 70 (Spring 2016) and 71 (Fall 2016). Part one available online at聽– article-2—dialogues-concerning-cultural-engagement-part-one. “
  • Displacing the Sacred: Thoughts on the Secularizing Influence in Hollywood,” Foundations: An International Journal of Evangelical Theology 64 (Spring 2013). Available online in March 2013 at聽— displacing-the-sacred-thoughts-on-the-secularising-influence-ofhollywood.
  • Popologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective, Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 346 pp., May 2012. “Popular Culture, Apologetics, and the Discourse of Desire,” Cultural Encounters 8:2 (Winter 2012): 25-46.
  • 鈥淥n Being Wise as Serpents: Why and How Christians Should Engage Popular Culture,鈥� The Evangelical Magazine (Evangelical Movement of 5 Wales), September/October 2010. Available online at聽聽(accessed 13th November, 2010).
  • 鈥淩eview of Eyes Wide Open: Searching for God in Popular Culture,鈥� Journal of Popular Culture vol. 42, no. 3 (June 2009): 581-83.
  • 鈥淟ife in the Twittersphere,鈥� The Gospel and Culture Project website, April 2009 (now defunct). Archived online at聽.
  • 鈥淧opular Cultural 鈥榃orlds鈥� As Alternative Religions,鈥� Christian Scholar鈥檚 Review vol. 37, no. 3 (Spring 2008): 323-45.
  • 鈥淛ack Be Evil, Jack Be Quick: Reflections on the Necessary Evils of 鈥�24鈥欌��, in Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity, edited by Margaret S枚nser Breen (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005): 109-25.
  • 鈥淚nflecting the World: Popular Culture and the Perception of Evil.鈥� The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 38, no. 2 (November, 2004): 384-96.
  • 鈥淓quipping Students to Engage Popular Culture.鈥� Article in The Word of God for the Academy in Contemporary Culture(s). Edited by John B. Hulst. Budapest, Hungary: K谩roli G谩sp谩r Reformed University, Faculty of Theology, 2003: 135-57.
  • 鈥淩eflecting Theologically on Popular Culture as Meaningful: The Role of Sin, Grace, and General Revelation,鈥� Calvin Theological Journal, 37, no. 2 (November 2002): 270-296. Available online at the Ransom Fellowship聽听苍驳迟丑别辞濒辞驳颈肠补濒濒测.辫诲蹿.
  • 鈥淪peaking in a Broken Tongue: Postmodernism, Principled Pluralism, and the Rehabilitation of Public Moral Discourse.鈥漌estminster Theological Journal 56 (Spring 1994): 345-77.