SPORT needs to be valued for its own sake, and released from the "demands of public utility", a new report suggests.
The report, Give Us Our Ball Back: Reclaiming sport for the common good, by Paul Bickley and Sam Tomlin, is published by the public-theology think tank Theos, and the Sports Think Tank.
"A theological understanding of sport relies on the concept of 'play'," it ...
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29th June 2012
SPORT needs to be valued for its own sake, and released from the "demands of public utility", a new report suggests.
The report, Give Us Our Ball Back: Reclaiming sport for the common good, by Paul Bickley and Sam Tomlin, is published by the public-theology think tank Theos, and the Sports Think Tank.
"A theological understanding of sport relies on the concept of 'play'," it ...
Ed Thornton | The Church Times
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