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Plowing in Hope: Towards a Biblical Theology of Culture
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 ...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
December 18th 2007
by Canon Press
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This is a good, short book on culture. The first portions of the book are nothing remarkable, but it is the last few chapters when Hegeman makes this book worth reading. Essentially he argues that Christians should establish their own culture, a competitive culture to the pagan culture around us. Though he does not believe we should engage in "culture wars" where we seek to work to redeem or "Christianize" pagan culture. What is called for is a strong and vibrant culture ...more
I would recommend this book solely based off the appendix: "toward a Christian vision in the arts". For such a short book, it is able to pack quite a bit of quality content between the covers. I have underlining all over the place in it.
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