Theology and Culture: A Guide to the Discussion

· Wipf and Stock Publishers
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How can we speak about God without assuming that God is nothing but our own speaking, nothing but our culture’s effort to name what cannot be named? How can we deny that our speaking of God is always culturally located? To answer these questions, we need to pay close attention to what we mean by culture, and how we use this very complex term both in our everyday language and especially in the language of faith. Culture is an exceedingly complex term that nearly everyone uses, but no one is sure what it means. This work examines various uses of the term culture in theology today.

How can we speak about God without assuming that God is nothing but our own speaking, nothing but our culture’s effort to name what cannot be named? How can we deny that our speaking of God is always culturally located? To answer these questions, we need to pay close attention to what we mean by ...

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D. Stephen Long is Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University. He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and has authored seventeen books, including Truth Telling in a Post Truth World (2019), and Augustinian and Ecclesial Christian Ethics: On Loving Enemies (2018).

D. Stephen Long is Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University. He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and has authored seventeen books, including Truth Telling in a Post Truth World (2019), and Augustinian and Ecclesial Christian Ethics: On Lov...

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