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Welcome to the
culture pages
How to find material on
this site.
Most material here is Spanish
translations of popular articles that
been contributed, but we have also
tried to provide seminal books. Also
on the Spanish side we have tried
to give some sense of various
attempts to present a (or some see
it as the) Christian view of culture,
but which are generally mainly
available only in other languages.
These perspectives are rivals and
somewhat in conflict with each
other. We hope to help the readers
to become aware of alternatives
and to grasp the issues in
contention.
See the English tab above to find a
general topical guide to material in
English. There is very little in
languages other than English and
Spanish, purely because of the
limitations of the people who have
worked on this web site.
Español
En Temas hay una variedad de
listas por tema de material en este
sitio. Perspectivas ofrece una guía
de algunos de ellos agrupándolos
bajo movimientos intelectuales
generales que les dieron origen, y
está construido para introducir
estos movimientos. Los índices más
completos son los que enumeran
artículos y libros por Autores.
Christian culture and the
illusion of non-cultural
spirituality
Christianity and Culture: it is no
longer an uphill struggle to get
people to pay attention. It is now
open war. Everywhere there are
publications and websites by
church organizations newly forced
to address the situation. But what
is culture? “Cultures develop when
a human population sharing a
common way of being aware of the
world, a common sense of what is
real and important, proceeds to
deal with the myriad concerns of
human life.” (Willis B. Glover) This
common sense is generally called
religion, though sometimes, as with
secular humanism, it pretends not
to be in order to give itself an
advantage in controlling education
or the state.
The problem of the challenge of a
general cultural modernity to
Christian belief and practice is now
eclipsed by a very specific alliance
of state, educational and media
institutions engaged in what they
expect to be a decisive campaign
against the possibility of the
survival of Christian community.
With the entire panoply of the
state, media, education, and big
corporations committed to the side
of the Deep State and against the
truth, where the churches stand
and whether they will be witnesses
for the truth is now the
unavoidable and conspicuous issue.
In a general way the Christian
public knows what to think of the
contemporary anti-Christian
movements, but modern times has
the churches on trial. This may be
the downfall of the denominations
as everyone can see their failure
and manifest uselessness, first and
foremost the Roman Church, but
also all the others. It is the modern
form of institutional Christianity,
created in the Enlightenment, and
now evolved into the
denominational franchise, that is
inadequate for these times, and
suddenly everyone can see this. If
they remain dim candles while the
light of truth shines from unofficial
sources the perception of the
nature of the church will change.
Christianity and Culture