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Plowing in Hope: Toward a Biblical Theology of Culture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Culture is a continuing, forward process—the gradual unveiling of truth as life. But often we get ensnarled. We can only imagine culture as a war, a gritty ideological and religious struggle where every arena is bloody with strife: art, philosophy, cuisine, music, literature, science. But at its foundation, culture is about building, not conflict. The time has come for us to beat our swords into...

whole structure seems to float as if it were weightless. On a still spring day when the cherry blossoms are in bloom, the view of the temple across its reflecting pond is said to be ravishingly beautiful. It is a paradigm of peace and inner harmony—the Buddhist ideal. Whether beautiful or repulsive, uplifting or destructive, the effects of human habitation are everywhere to be seen across the whole surface of the earth. We call these durable effects of human habitation “culture.” Culture is the output
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