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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...

paradigm in his own terms, before we think it through afresh, so for the time being I will retain his use of the terminology. That Niebuhr’s understanding of what “Christ” and “culture” mean lies along the line of competing authority claims is strikingly illustrated in his summary of the first paradigm: “The first answer to the question of Christ and culture we shall consider is the one that uncompromisingly affirms the sole authority of Christ over the Christian and resolutely
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