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Culture making : recovering our creative calling
Title:
Culture making : recovering our creative calling
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Summary:
It is not enough to condemn culture. Nor is it sufficient merely to critique culture or to copy culture. Most of the time, we just consume culture. But the only way to change culture is to create culture. Andy Crouch unleashes a stirring manifesto calling Christians to be culture makers. For too long, Christians have had an insufficient view of culture and have waged misguided "culture wars." But we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators that God designed us to be. Culture is what we make of the world, both in creating cultural artifacts as well as in making sense of the world around us. Crouch unpacks the complexities of how culture works and gives us tools for cultivating and creating culture. He navigates the dynamics of cultural change and probes the role and efficacy of our various cultural gestures and postures. Keen biblical exposition demonstrates that creating culture is central to the whole scriptural narrative, the ministry of Jesus and the call to the church. He guards against naive assumptions about "changing the world, " but points us to hopeful examples from church history and contemporary society of how culture is made and shaped. Ultimately, our culture making is done in partnership with God's own making and transforming of culture.
Year Published:
2008
Physical Description:
284 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: CULTURE -- The horizons of the possible -- Cultural worlds -- Teardowns, technology and change -- Cultivation and creation -- Gestures and postures -- Part II: GOSPEL -- The garden and the city -- Interlude : the primordial story -- The least of the nations -- Jesus as culture maker -- From Pentecost -- To Revelation -- The glorious impossible -- Part III: CALLING -- Why we can't change the world -- The traces of God -- Power -- Community -- Grace -- Postscript: Artist in his studio.
ISBN:
9780830833948
Publisher:
Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, c2008.