Quotes About Culture

the dominant ways of thinking about culture and cultural change are flawed, for they are based on both specious social science and problematic theology.

culture is as much an infrastructure as it is ideas.

the character of American civilization is a bundle of contradictions,

pluralism today—at least in America—exists without a dominant culture,

There is little taste for 'high culture' especially in Evangelicalism, where the tendency has long been toward translation - making things accessible to the largest number of people.

One cannot help but recognize already that there is something about the historical unfolding of our moral culture that resists all of those efforts to change it or finesse it or oppose it.

idealism ignores the way culture is generated,

idealism mistakenly imputes a logic and rationality to culture

culture is not neutral in relation to power but a form of power.

The cultural capital American Christianity has amassed simply cannot be leveraged where it matters most.

merely engaging the culture implies the issue and exercise of power.

theology moves in the opposite direction of social theory,

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

In our technology-dominated world, the value of literature is getting harder and harder to maintain, but it must be maintained if we're going to have any humanity left at all.

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.

In 1959, the scientist and novelist C. P. Snow gave a famous lecture, 'The Two Cultures', on the ever-growing and unhealthy divide he saw between science and the humanities.

While man exists in this mortal state he needs some of the things of the world; he must have food and clothing and provision for shelter; and beside these bare necessities he may righteously desire the facilities of education, the incidentals of advancing civilization, and the things that are conducive to refinement and culture; yet all of these are but aids to achievement, not the end to attain which man was made mortal.

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

It was to Greece that the Romans first owed their knowledge of healing, and of art and science generally, but at no time did the Romans equal the Greeks in mental culture.

The Romans were distinguished for their genius for law-giving and government, the Greeks for philosophy, art, and mental culture generally.

Three Tasks of a Good Missionary Learn the language: educate yourself on how to talk in a way that people can understand and to which they can relate and eventually respond Study the culture: become so sensitized to that culture that you can operate effectively within it Translate the gospel: translate it into its own cultural context so that it can be heard, understood, and appropriated

The heart of secularism is a functional atheism. Rather than rejecting the idea of God, our culture simply ignores him.

Today, if asked about their religion, people in the center say they're nothing, because that's the cultural thing to say.

And the influence of their peers can be utterly overwhelming. As their closest friends succumb to the trend of G.O.Y., many children feel pressured to match them for the sake of popularity and acceptance. And sadly, instead of stepping in to be the voice of reason, many parents are feeding into this cultural trend. Many