Description: 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. Endorsements: ""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 ""Too many 'guides' pretend to a kind of theological
neutrality that leads us nowhere. Steve Long's wonderful little
book is a noted exception: here is a guide to the theological
terrain that doesn't apologize for working with a compass.
Providing a helpful survey of various schools of thought, the book
also constitutes an argument for a particular theological
understanding of culture. Long not only charts the territory, he
also shows students how to plot a path through it. I've already
been commending it to my students."" --James K. A. Smith, Associate
Professor of Philosophy, CalvinCollege ""Long's book is filled with
deep insight and strategic provocation, both of which ought to push
the theology and culture conversation beyond its unexamined truisms
and self-satisfied dogmas. This is a book for people who take their
theology without cream or sugar."" --Brent Laytham, Associate
Professor of Theology and Ethics, North Park Theological Seminary
""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 classifications
in the wake of the rising influence 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 flows
over confessional boundaries."" --Tracey Rowland, author of Culture
and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II (Radical Orthodoxy)
About the Contributor(s): D. Stephen Long is professor of theology
at Marquette University. He has published a number of works,
including Divine Economy: Theology and the Market (2000), The
Goodness of God: Theology, Church, and the Social Order (2001),
John Wesley's Moral Theology: The Quest for God and Goodness
(2005), and Calculated Future: Theology, Ethics, and Economics
(2007).
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