Culture Making
Culture Making

Culture Making

Recovering Our Creative Calling

 
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2009 Book Award winner! Named one of 's best books of 2008 (religion category) 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. By making chairs and omelets, languages and laws, we participate in the good work of culture making. 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. A model of his premise, this landmark book is sure to be a rallying cry for a new generation of culturally creative Christians. Discover your calling and join the culture makers.
ISBN: 9780830874842
Producer: InterVarsity Press
Weight: 0.001kg
Binding: Digital delivered electronically
File size: 560KB
Release Date: 24.11.2013
Language: English

Book contents

Introduction 1. The Horizons of the Possible 2. Cultural Worlds 3. Teardowns, Technology and Change 4. Cultivation and Creation 5. Gestures and Postures 6. The Garden and the City 7. The Least of the Nations 8. Jesus as Culture Maker 9. From Pentecost . . . 10. . . . To Revelation 11. The Glorious Impossible 12. Why We Can't Change the World 13. The Traces of God 14. Power 15. Community 16. Grace Postscript: Notes and Further Reading Acknowledgments Endorsements About Andy Crouch Questions for Reflection and Discussion by Al Hsu and Nate Barksdale

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Andy Crouch
Andy Crouch (MDiv, Boston University School of Theology) is executive editor of and the author of books such as and . Andy serves on the governing boards of Fuller Theological Seminary and Equitas Group, a philanthropic organization focused on ending child exploitation in Haiti and Southeast Asia. He is also a senior fellow of International Justice Mission’s Institute for Biblical Justice. His writing has appeared in , the and several editions of and . Crouch served as executive producer for the documentary films and , as well as the multi-year project This Is Our City, which featured documentary video, reporting and essays about Christians seeking the flourishing of their cities. He also sits on the editorial board for and was editor-in-chief of . He also spent ten years as a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz and gospel, Crouch has led musical worship for congregations of five to twenty thousand. He lives with his family in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.