Christ and Culture RevisitedCalled to live in the world, but not to be of it, Christians must maintain a balancing act that becomes more precarious the further our culture departs from its Judeo-Christian roots. How should members of the church interact with such a culture, especially as deeply enmeshed as most of us have become? D. A. Carson applies his masterful touch to this problem. He begins by exploring the classic typology of H. Richard Niebuhr with its five Christ-culture options. Carson proposes that these disparate options are in reality one still larger vision. Using the Bible's own story line and the categories of biblical theology, he clearly lays out that unifying vision. Carson acknowledges the helpfulness of Niebuhr's grid and similar matrices but warns against giving them canonical force. More than just theoretical, Christ and Culture Revisited is also designed practically to help Christians untangle current messy debates on living in the world. Carson emphasizes that the relation between Christ and culture is not limited to an either/or cultural paradigm -- Christ against culture or Christtransforming culture. Instead Carson offers his own paradigm in which all the categories of biblical theology must be kept in mind simultaneously to inform the Christian worldview. While many other books on culture interact with Niebuhr, none of them takes anything like the biblical-theological approach adopted here. Groundbreaking and challenging, Christ and Culture Revisited is a tour de force. |
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User Review - keithhamblen - LibraryThingThe theme of Christ and Culture Revisited is the relation of Christians (and especially groups of Christians-the church!) to culture (pgs. 13ff, 58, 98, 207). DAC provides an analysis of H. Richard ... Read full review
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How do we live in the world but not of it? What belongs to Caesar and what belongs to God? Carson shows in his John Gillian fashion this issue is just as complex as ever in today's world, and more so ... Read full review
Contents
How to Think about Culture Reminding Ourselves of Neibuhr | 1 |
Niebuhr Revised The Impact of Biblical Theology | 31 |
Refining Culture and Redefining Postmodernism | 67 |
Secularism Democracy Freedom and Power | 115 |
Church and State | 145 |
On Disputed Agendas Frustrated Utopias and Ongoing Tensions | 205 |
| 229 | |
| 235 | |
Index of Scripture References | 241 |
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| Title | Christ and Culture Revisited |
| Author | D.A. Carson |
| Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802831745, 9780802831743 |
| Length | 243 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Biblical Studies / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts Religion / Christian Life / Social Issues Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Religion, Politics & State Social Science / Sociology / General |
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