This is on how Christianity influences our culture, while our culture shapes how our faith is practiced.
Christianity and the World of Cultures
For those Christians who take a more guarded approach to surrounding cultures, their message will be one of caution. Nevertheless, reaction against culture can be as powerful for identity formation as would be accepting culture. Thus, Christians throughout time have taken stands against alcohol, polygamy, divorce, abortion, and a myriad of other issues.
Faith and Culture
"Faith and Culture." One commonplace perspective on this relationship holds that Christians, just like any sectarian or ethnic group, might have their own insular culture, but that this can only have tangential bearing on the larger culture in which they are embedded. Hence the faithful must decide whether and when to accommodate their way of life to the more encompassing..
CHRISTIANITY AND THE PEOPLES CULTURE
Christianity, by virtue of its peculiar divine merits and universal scope, is far above the culture, customs or traditions of any peoples – be they Jews, Greeks, Romans, Britons or Nigerians. Though it is possible to reflect a people’s culture in its practice, there can be no harmony between it and any culture or tradition that is based on idolatry or superstition.
Modern Culture and Christian Faith
The primary challenge modern culture offers Christian faith is that the former is itself the fruit of a historico-cultural process deeply influenced by Christian faith. In many ways modern culture is an elevated, sophisticated one, containing a great variety of precious anthropological insights and strengths, with a surprising adaptability and openness to absorb, to clarify and to unite.
Christianity and Culture
It is always there but we sometimes take it for granted. My fascination with culture arises from the fact that it can help us to understand why people do things the way they do them. Or think, for that matter. Over the past two years, I have been researching how youth cultures influence our discipleship of young people in the church In Africa, we not only have to engage with our traditional cutlure
Why Your Faith is More Influenced by Culture than the Bible
We to distinguish between certain aspects of a culture that are not harmful to biblical belief and can assimilate into Christian faith. Cultural aspects like food, modest dress, language, monetary currency and mode of work can easily be assimilated with a gospel presentation without compromising the message.......
3 Views on the Relationship between Christianity and Culture
This first perspective sees Christianity and culture as two opposing forces of influence. The church stands on one side of the line, and culture on the other. Ashford says, “This is especially a temptation for Americans who realize that their country is becoming increasingly post-Christian—and in some ways, even anti-Christian.
THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN FAITH AND CULTURE
"The question about the relationship between faith and culture is in one sense as old as Christianity itself. It arose in a particularly acute form in the first century when the early Church was faced with difficult questions about the admission of Gentiles into the Christian community. It continued to exercise the early Church towards the end of the second century as the Church ...
Faith and Culture
Faith and culture are inextricably connected because a culture is always an expression of the faith which informs it. If a culture is animated by a belief in the triune splendour of the good, the true, and the beautiful, it will shine forth goodness, truth, and beauty. Why “faith and culture"? Do they go together? Can they be separated? Can faith exist without culture? Can culture exist without faith?
Faith & Culture
Faith is our response to the revelation of God. It is an intellectual consent to truths which cannot be understood with the light of human reason alone, but truths that are affirmed because the motive for acceptance of them is God Himself Who can neither deceive or be deceived.