mean. If this is true of an ordinary term like “hammer,” how much more is it true of a metaphor like culture. Many discussions of theology and culture begin with a definition of culture. H. Richard Niebuhr did this in his well known book, Christ and Culture, which is one of the most important works on our topic. He stated, Culture is “that total process of human activity and that total result of such activity to which now the name culture, now the name civilization, is applied in common speech …