Summary Crouch continues to provide a new perspective of culture by addressing culture through cultivation and creation. In his third chapter, Crouch addresses the idea that culture changes, however he discusses culture making through the term integrity. He continues to broaden the definition of culture being more than just a worldview. In his next chapter, he discusses four inneffective ways of changing culture: condemning, critiquing, copying, and consuming. He concludes by stating the way to change culture is through creation, creating something new. We should be aware of the culture and create various ways to become cultivators to change. In his fifth chapter, he address that in order to effectively change culture, there needs to be a
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He supports this claim by addressing the relationship of speed of change and the longevity of impact. He expresses how culture takes time in order to have a great effect.
CLAIM TWO: “The biggest cultural mistake we can indulge in is to yearn for technological “solutions” to our deepest cultural “problems.” In this chapter, Crouch uses the examples of technology of one that can be used more as a danger rather than something that can help culture. Andy uses this claim to show that technology should not be used with the intentions to fix cultural problems. Though it will be a tool and vessel, we should use it with caution.
CLAIM THREE: “The danger of reducing culture to worldview is that we may miss the most distinctive thing about culture, which is that cultural goods have a life of their own. They reshape the world in unpredictable ways.” I found this claim to change my whole perspective of culture, growing up, I only knew culture defined in two ways: through ethnicity and race, or through our worldviews. This claim shows that culture is more than a worldview, changing everything I once thought about culture. However, this quote helps me to understand culture to be so much more than what I once knew. This claim helps me to see that not only does culture change, but it is something that is alive and …show more content…
Culture is what we make of the world— we start not with a blank slate but with all the richly encultured world that previous generations have handed to us.”
As Crouch emphasized, we are to be creators and cultivators, this claim shows that creativity is inspired, it comes from the culture throughout history. When we see various events form time we are learn from various cultures and are inspired to create something new.
CLAIM THREE: “So underneath almost every act of culture making we find countless small acts of culture keeping...Cultural creativity requires cultural maturity.” This claim display a sort of discipline that culture creativity needs to be conserved and kept. For Christians, this points out creating a culture that will effect people takes time and hard work, it isn’t something that will always have an effect instantaneously, rather it is a discipline that we repeat. We are challenged to practice and practice that eventually gows into a sort of maturity.
Chapter 5: CLAIM ONE: “But much of this energy had the side effect, usually unintended, of separating the work of culture from Christian faith
He supports this claim by addressing the relationship of speed of change and the longevity of impact. He expresses how culture takes time in order to have a great effect.
CLAIM TWO: “The biggest cultural mistake we can indulge in is to yearn for technological “solutions” to our deepest cultural “problems.” In this chapter, Crouch uses the examples of technology of one that can be used more as a danger rather than something that can help culture. Andy uses this claim to show that technology should not be used with the intentions to fix cultural problems. Though it will be a tool and vessel, we should use it with caution.
CLAIM THREE: “The danger of reducing culture to worldview is that we may miss the most distinctive thing about culture, which is that cultural goods have a life of their own. They reshape the world in unpredictable ways.” I found this claim to change my whole perspective of culture, growing up, I only knew culture defined in two ways: through ethnicity and race, or through our worldviews. This claim shows that culture is more than a worldview, changing everything I once thought about culture. However, this quote helps me to understand culture to be so much more than what I once knew. This claim helps me to see that not only does culture change, but it is something that is alive and …show more content…
Culture is what we make of the world— we start not with a blank slate but with all the richly encultured world that previous generations have handed to us.”
As Crouch emphasized, we are to be creators and cultivators, this claim shows that creativity is inspired, it comes from the culture throughout history. When we see various events form time we are learn from various cultures and are inspired to create something new.
CLAIM THREE: “So underneath almost every act of culture making we find countless small acts of culture keeping...Cultural creativity requires cultural maturity.” This claim display a sort of discipline that culture creativity needs to be conserved and kept. For Christians, this points out creating a culture that will effect people takes time and hard work, it isn’t something that will always have an effect instantaneously, rather it is a discipline that we repeat. We are challenged to practice and practice that eventually gows into a sort of maturity.
Chapter 5: CLAIM ONE: “But much of this energy had the side effect, usually unintended, of separating the work of culture from Christian faith