Approach

    Our aim is to acquaint you with key figures and their ideas related to cultural anlysis--including and especially Christian resources. Of course, it’s hard not to start talking about our received cultural tradition without giving a prominent place to Aristotle and Plato--and we will do that. However, that prominent place isn’t because we agree with everything they have to say (if for only that they disagree with each other on important things), but rather because of their systematic work in metaphysics, epistemology, axiology and culture has had an enormous influence on the ideas, customs and development in the West. Of course, there are also the pre-Socratics to consider, but since we have less of their comprehensive thought existing today, we will pass over it because of length.

    We will list and provide resources for understanding many key Christian contributors to cultural analysis in order to give you an opportunity (if you haven’t already) to get acquainted with what they have to say. As always, the challenge is to understand what these voices have had to say and to think critically about that, through the grid of our understanding of what the Scriptures teach. This is complicated because not everybody in the Christian faith family agrees about what it teaches. 

    You will find on this level, links to the work of individuals, some of whom have made seminal contributions. You will find some of these people on the “cultural left,” some in the center and some on the “cultural right.” As always on our sites inclusion does not idicate an endorsement of everything any of these had to say, even from those of our Christian heritage.

    Below are some links to get you started thinking about the nature of culture...of course, you’ll find many other discussions of its nature in other parts of this site:

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