How can we speak about God without assuming that God is nothing but
our own speaking, nothing but our culture's effort to name what
cannot be named? How can we deny that our speaking of God is always
culturally located? To answer these questions, we need to pay close
attention to what we mean by culture, and how we use this very
complex term both in our everyday language and especially in the
language of faith. Culture is an exceedingly complex term that
nearly everyone uses, but no one is sure what it means. This work
examines various uses of the term culture in theology today. D.
Stephen Long is professor of theology at Marquette University. He
has published a number of works, including 'Divine Economy:
Theology and the Market', 'The Goodness of God: Theology, Church,
and the Social Order', 'John Wesley's Moral Theology: The Quest for
God and Goodness', and 'Calculated Future: Theology, Ethics and
Economics'. "Modernity, Steve Long tells us with his patented
acerbity, is a broken record that never stops repeating its
supposed novelty. If broken records require sharp, swift smacks to
be knocked out of their tiresome grooves, Long's palm-sized book
delivers a salutary slap that gets us back on track - and out of
confused modern conceptualities that pit theology against culture.
An excellent, masterly introduction to its topic."- Rodney Clapp,
author of 'A Peculiar People' and 'Border Crossings' "This work, as
the title suggests, offers a bird's eye view of the state of play
between theology and culture.It provides a valuable summary of the
contribution of Richard Niebuhr to the subject, but also suggests
there is a need to revise Niebuhr's classi cations in the wake of
the rising in uence of the theology of Henri de Lubac common to
both the Radical Orthodoxy and Communio Catholic scholars.From de
Lubac's perspective, Christ transforms cultures, rather than
standing aloof outside them.The dynamics of this transformation is
now a pressing theological concern which ows over confessional
boundaries." - Tracey Rowland, author of 'Culture and the Thomist
Tradition: After Vatican II'.
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