Considering Culture (4)
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In the next key point in the biblical narrative, the fall, mankind — the image of God in creation and the intended steward — turns its back on God.
We can refer back to our previous statement, that “a properly functioning creation is what brings glory to the Creator, God, and mankind has a significant role in that proper functioning”. Mankind’s significant role is now twisted as we refuse to work in line with the Creator and all of creation suffers.
In particular, culture no longer brings glory to God. We take “the freedom that God gives us in our role as stewards and divine representatives” (see previous post) and push it to places it was not supposed to go.
Looking at it another way, we can consider the following from Kevin Vanhoozer:
A culture expresses the totality of what a group of humans value.
Due to the fall, our values no longer coincide with God’s, and consequently our cultures express the wrong things.
If creation — including culture and including individual lives — is going to glorify God then something needs to be done.
God kicks off his great mission by calling Abraham and Israel. The ball starts rolling for the big rescue…
Tags: culture, Culture Seminar, theology, worldview
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