How do we live together well? How do we culturally engage in the manner that’s best for everyone, considering the diversity that we live in the midst of? Dr. Darrell Bock guides you through cultural engagement and Scripture and asks Christians to analyze the cultures that they live in and the ways they structure their lives. Bock explores the rules of the game of life, what makes people produce what we produce, the ways they work the earth, the ways we generate companies, the way they produce objects, the institutions that we form, the religions that we have, the kinds of governments that we build, the businesses that function, and all the things that make for the running of life. Delve into our world that is full of cultures and distinct settings and examine the cross-cultural realities and the pluralism that we all live with as human beings.
Introduction
Introduction
Introducing the Speaker and the Course
3m
Introduction to Culture and Cultural Engagement
Thinking about Culture
6m
Culture Does Not Equal the World
4m
People in Culture: What Creation Tells Us
6m
The Human Calling
7m
The Christian’s Place in the Culture
10m
A Core Tension: Diversity of Views
4m
Richard Niebuhr on Christ and Culture: Six Approaches
7m
The Hermeneutics of Cultural Engagement
The Bible and Culture: The Hermeneutics of Reading Both
7m
Reading from Life Back to the Bible
5m
The Core Tension
5m
An Invitation and Call
6m
LBGT Issues: An Overview
4m
Common Texts against Same-Sex Marriage
5m
Things the Bible Is Said to Say about Same-Sex Marriage
9m
Civil and Pastoral Questions
7m
Other Relevant Issues
6m
Layers of Complexity
6m
Scripture and Cultural Engagement
Paul’s Tone of Cultural Engagement in Romans 1 and 3
5m
Paul’s Tone of Cultural Engagement in Acts 17
11m
Lessons from Paul
5m
Observations about Doing Cultural Reflection in Scripture
6m
The Application of Cultural Engagement
Theme One: Tone
5m
Texts on Tone: 1 Peter 3:13–16
4m
Texts on Tone: Colossians 4:4–6 and Galatians 6:10