Theology and Culture: A Guide to the Discussion (Biblia.com)

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How can we speak about God without assuming that God is nothing but our own speaking, nothing but our culture’s effort to name what cannot be named? How can we deny that our speaking of God is always culturally located? To answer these questions, we need to pay close attention to what we mean by culture, and how we use this very complex term both in our everyday language and especially in the...

to understand God. If we can define God in a category that is more encompassing than what we mean by “God,” then that larger category would truly be what we mean by “God” and our use of the term “God” would be subordinate to that larger category. This is why theology begins with the claim that God is not in a genus or that God is not in a category. We know this only because of the revelation given to Moses when God tells him that God’s proper name is “I am.” God alone is the one who truly is; God

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