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Called to live in the world, but not to be of it, Christians must maintain a balancing act that becomes more precarious the further our culture departs from its Judeo-Christian roots. How should members of the church interact with such a culture, especially as deeply enmeshed as most of us have become? D. A. Carson applies his masterful touch to this problem. He begins by exploring the classic...

always social (i.e., it is bound up with human life in society), it is human achievement (presupposing purposiveness and effort), it is bound up with a world of values which, dominantly, are thought to be for “the good of man” (32–35). Again, culture in all its forms and varieties is concerned with the “temporal and material realization of values” (36). And so, since the achievement of these values is accomplished “in transient and perishing stuff, cultural activity is almost as much concerned with
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