Culture and questions (4): why and how
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I ended the last post alluding Tim Keller’s emphasis that Christians should be servants within culture and agents for cultural renewal — a ‘faithful presence within’. Perhaps we can link this with asking questions and with previous posts on reading/interpreting culture (which had in view Vanhoozer & co.’s Everyday Theology and Crouch’s Culture Making).
Why do we attempt to interpret culture? Not just for some intellectual rush. We interpret to understand the questions & the plot tensions. And we aim to understand these so that we can serve better, so that we can bring renewal where it is needed. So, that we come with answers to the questions that are being asked, not the questions we think should be asked.
A random walk over culture, art, christianity, etc. with occasional photographs...