Over at the Resurgence blog (one of my favs), Tim Keller has an article on Christians & Culture. Specifically, Christians and urban culture. Here's the main thrust of his argument (abbreviated):
- Christians should live long-term in the city. The city is an intense crucible of culture-formation. Cultural trends tend to be generated in the city and flow outward into the rest of society...
- Christians should be a dynamic counter-culture in the city. It will not be enough for Christians to simply live as individuals in the city. They must live as a particular kind of community...
- Christians should be a community radically committed to the good of the city as a whole. It is insufficient for Christians to form a culture that only 'counters' the values of the city. We must then turn, with all the resources of our faith and life, to sacrificially serve the good of the whole city, and especially the poor...
- Christians should be a people who integrate their faith with their work...all work proceeds from beliefs about the 'big questions' regarding what life means, what human beings are, and what are the most important things in life. We call the answers to these big questions a 'worldview.’ Most fields of work today are dominated by very different worldviews than that of Christianity.
I like what I'm hearing on this front, especially as formulated by Tim Keller.
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