Culture making recovering our creative calling / [electronic resource] :
Andy Crouch.
- Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, c2008.
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-281) and index.
Introduction -- Part I: Culture -- The horizons of the possible -- Cultural worlds -- Teardowns, technology and change -- Cultivation and creation -- Gestures and postures -- Part II: Gospel -- The garden and the city -- Interlude : the primordial story -- The least of the nations -- Jesus as culture maker -- From Pentecost -- To Revelation -- The glorious impossible -- Part III: Calling -- Why we can't change the world -- The traces of God -- Power -- Community -- Grace -- Postscript: Artist in his studio.
Encourages Christians to contribute to the making of culture, providing examples from church history and contemporary society to demonstrate how culture is created and shaped.