The Church and Sports: A History
In A Brief Theology of Sport Lincoln Harvey argues that throughout its history the church has often failed to think theologically about sports. That isn’t to say it hasn’t thought about sports, though. Over the centuries the church has oscillated between a complete rejection of sports to a blind/naive acceptance.
Harvey identifies a (clashing) “chord with three notes” that has been consistently struck by the church in relation to sport throughout its history:
* The church has been opposed to sport. Primarily because of sport’s long association with pagan religion and idolatry. Christians have…
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