I've finally started reading a book I picked up a couple of months ago - Culture Making by Andy Crouch. I guess one of the main reasons that I bought it was because of the endorsement by Tim Keller on the front - a minister in New York that I'm a bit of a fan of.
Crouch has so far defined culture as being 'what we make out of the world and the meaning we give it'.
He makes the interesting point that culture was even instituted by God in the beginning. Adam and Eve were created and sent to work in the Garden, using the raw material of nature and forming it, making the first artifacts of culture, adding meaning to what was around them.
I'm looking forward to reading the rest of this book, particularly to see what Crouch says about how we should interact with culture and how we should influence it.
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I'm really interested in hearing more about this book! I've been thinking lots about cultural renewal lately specifically in the context of work and why we work. And also how as Christians we are to partner with God in redeeming culture...
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