Plowing in Hope: Toward a Biblical Theology of Culture (Biblia.com)

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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...

individual or group who makes them (“by their fruits you will know them”—Mt. 7:20). Thus culture is the concrete expression of a society’s religious and philosophical commitments; it flows out of the heart—as it were—of the society which produces it (Prov. 4:23). biblical terminology Culture is in evidence throughout the pages of Scripture. Nearly every page speaks of farming or buildings or singing or commerce or religious rituals or the like. In fact, the Bible is itself a product of culture. The

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