Tag: Culture
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If, as I believ…
If, as I believe, faith and imagination are the two primary sources of culture, then even in the darkest time it is possible to make poems and prayers out of our travails. – Gregory Wolfe, in his Introduction to The New Religious Humanists
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Today’s Professional
The man of today is no longer able to understand his neighbor because his profession is his whole life, and the technical specialization of this life has forced him to live in a closed universe. He no longer understands the vocabulary of others. Nor does he comprehend the underlying motivations of others – Jacques Ellul,…
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The Technological Society
Jacques Ellul (author of The Technological Society) wrote the following around 50 years ago: But man himself is overpowered by technique [read: technology] and becomes its object. The technique which takes man for its object thus becomes the center of society; this extraordinary event… is often designated as technical civilization… Technical civilization means that our…
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Servants
When we take up the role of servants, we do precisely what the powerful prefer not to do: put ourselves in a position where our power is of little use. Rather than asserting the privilege the powerful have to control their environment and avoid humbling experiences, we seek Christ in the places where we will…
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Culture and Grace
I learned something new today from Andy Crouch’s Culture Making: the fact that “Culture… is not just the site of human rebellion against God, not just the site of God’s judgment against sin, it is also the site of God’s mercy.” After Adam and Eve sinned they made coverings out of fig leaves, but God…
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Culture: Its Theological Justification
Colin Gunton in The One, the Three and the Many offers this theological justification for culture: The distinctive feature of created persons is their mediating function in the achievement of perfection by the rest of creation. They are called to the forms of action, in science, ethics and art – in a word, to culture…
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The New Calvinism
There seems to be a resurgence of interest in Calvinism in the USA. I think it has reached even the Philippines and Bacolod City. Many young Christians I know are familiar with John Piper and John MacArthur. DYVS airs messages by both Piper and MacArthur and other Reformed preachers such as Alister Begg. As far…
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A Call to Care
Learning to Cry for the Culture | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction. An article on Francis Schaeffer by John Fischer
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