Return To Christian Culture
Summary and Critique: A Return To Christian Culture or, Why Avoid the Cult of the Slob? by Richard S. Taylor
This book, A Return To Christian Culture, is written in the point of view that culture is important, and we are unaware and neglectful the significance of culture about its role in evangelism. The character of culture affects the majority of problems as a core of issue, such as the race, generation gap, and etc. The author, Richard Taylor, mentions the cultural difference between highly cultured people and the lower. Otherwise, there are six chapters in this book guiding us to approach the meaning of relation to culture, the crisis and relation of the Christian’s culture. Then the author leads us on a journey through much ado and the …show more content…
Taylor set up the term “culture” in the restricted meaning. It is distinct from character, which is what we are in heart. “Culture is the development of the person, intellectually, aesthetically, and socially, to the full use of his powers, in compatibility with the recognized standards of excellence of his society” (13). Christ shapes Christian culture and are related to culture. In this chapter, He indicates that in Christ character and culture are blinded together in mutual obligation; besides, christianity is prescriptive in its approach to culture. Christianity prescribes the culture in three ways: “ it endorses the basic canons of culture, Christianity impregnates culture with its own principles, and Christianity challenges and rejects that in any general culture which is evil and irredeemable” (22-25). To correlate the three ways, the culture as the fundamental viewpoint of this book the author pointed, “It is not to encourage a cultural approach to religion, but a religious approach to culture” (28).
Second, true culture comes from within, but people may give the aim into the moods of culture crisis. The culture crisis is the outward manifestation of the moral decadence, and another one is in the relationships between the sexes. Due to the culture crisis, Taylor thinks people are in two by-products of the cultural wilderness, as a schismatical society into subcultures, and decadence in the realm of the fine arts; however, we can get out from the wilderness because the obligation to be cultured is inherent in the Christian faith and in the command to be
This book, A Return To Christian Culture, is written in the point of view that culture is important, and we are unaware and neglectful the significance of culture about its role in evangelism. The character of culture affects the majority of problems as a core of issue, such as the race, generation gap, and etc. The author, Richard Taylor, mentions the cultural difference between highly cultured people and the lower. Otherwise, there are six chapters in this book guiding us to approach the meaning of relation to culture, the crisis and relation of the Christian’s culture. Then the author leads us on a journey through much ado and the …show more content…
Taylor set up the term “culture” in the restricted meaning. It is distinct from character, which is what we are in heart. “Culture is the development of the person, intellectually, aesthetically, and socially, to the full use of his powers, in compatibility with the recognized standards of excellence of his society” (13). Christ shapes Christian culture and are related to culture. In this chapter, He indicates that in Christ character and culture are blinded together in mutual obligation; besides, christianity is prescriptive in its approach to culture. Christianity prescribes the culture in three ways: “ it endorses the basic canons of culture, Christianity impregnates culture with its own principles, and Christianity challenges and rejects that in any general culture which is evil and irredeemable” (22-25). To correlate the three ways, the culture as the fundamental viewpoint of this book the author pointed, “It is not to encourage a cultural approach to religion, but a religious approach to culture” (28).
Second, true culture comes from within, but people may give the aim into the moods of culture crisis. The culture crisis is the outward manifestation of the moral decadence, and another one is in the relationships between the sexes. Due to the culture crisis, Taylor thinks people are in two by-products of the cultural wilderness, as a schismatical society into subcultures, and decadence in the realm of the fine arts; however, we can get out from the wilderness because the obligation to be cultured is inherent in the Christian faith and in the command to be