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Culture making : recovering our creative calling / Andy Crouch ; afterword with Tish Harrison Warren.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2023]Edition: Expanded editionDescription: 314 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781514005767
  • 151400576X
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Contents:
Part One: Culture. The Horizons of the possible -- Cultural worlds -- Teardowns, technology, and change -- Cultivation and creation -- Gestures and postures -- Part Two: Gospel. The Garden and the city -- Interlude: The Primordial story -- The least of the nations -- Jesus as culture maker -- From Pentecost -- ... To Revelation -- The Glorious impossible -- Part Three: Calling. Why we can't change the world -- The traces of God -- Power -- Community -- Grace -- Postscript: artist in his studio -- Afterword: A conversation between Tish Harrison Warren and Andy Crouch -- Questions for reflection and discussion by Al Hsu and Nate Barksdale.
Summary: "The only way to change culture is to create culture. Andy Crouch says we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators God designed us to be. In this expanded edition of his award-winning book he unpacks how culture works and gives us tools to partner with God's own making and transforming of culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Christianity Today Book Award winner

Publishers Weekly 's best books

The only way to change culture is to create culture.

Most of the time, we just consume or copy culture. But that is not enough. We must also do more than condemn or critique it. The only way to change it is to create it.

For too long, Christians have had an insufficient view of culture and have waged misguided "culture wars." But Andy Crouch says we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators God designed us to be. Culture is what we make of the world, both in making cultural artifacts as well as in making sense of the world around us.

In this expanded edition of his award-winning book Crouch unpacks the complexities of how culture works, the dynamics of cultural change, and tools for cultivating culture. Keen biblical exposition demonstrates that creating culture is central to the whole scriptural narrative, the ministry of Jesus, and the call to the church. With a conversation between Crouch and Tish Harrison Warren as the new afterword, this expanded edition addresses the current landscape and forges a way for the future of culture making. Enter into it with guided questions for reflection and discussion for a deeper experience.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: Culture. The Horizons of the possible -- Cultural worlds -- Teardowns, technology, and change -- Cultivation and creation -- Gestures and postures -- Part Two: Gospel. The Garden and the city -- Interlude: The Primordial story -- The least of the nations -- Jesus as culture maker -- From Pentecost -- ... To Revelation -- The Glorious impossible -- Part Three: Calling. Why we can't change the world -- The traces of God -- Power -- Community -- Grace -- Postscript: artist in his studio -- Afterword: A conversation between Tish Harrison Warren and Andy Crouch -- Questions for reflection and discussion by Al Hsu and Nate Barksdale.

"The only way to change culture is to create culture. Andy Crouch says we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators God designed us to be. In this expanded edition of his award-winning book he unpacks how culture works and gives us tools to partner with God's own making and transforming of culture"-- Provided by publisher.

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