Christian Formation In Global Culture Budde Summary

In Michael Budde’s writing, Christian Formation in Global Culture Industries, Budde’s main argument is that technology influences the Christian community in preserving the maintenance of the Christian and in the production of more Christians. In Budde’s argument he states that global culture influences what a person does or will do, to become normal. According to Budde, the global culture takes the Christians differences from the “normal” people and positions those distinctions against them, so that the Christians want to be like everyone else and become “normal”. His argument mentions that what the Christian watches, will not affect the Christian, but only the number of hours watching will affect him or her. The number of hours will only affect
the Christian because they are surrounded with global culture and the call to the gospel will not be heard. While Budde has a relatively strong argument about the effect technology has on the growing number of Christians and its influence on previous Christians, he does not give reasons for how the church can help maintain and grow the Christian community. Budde states the only way a person can be saved from this influence of technology is to be radically reformed, but Budde does not give us the “how to” they can be reformed. Budde’s argument is not strong in the way a person can be reformed or how the church can help with the dwindling Christian population.