CS121 Cultural Engagement and Scripture
Overview
How do we live together well? How do we culturally engage in the manner that’s best for everyone, considering the diversity that we live in the midst of? Dr. Darrell Bock guides you through cultural engagement and Scripture and asks Christians to analyze the cultures that they live in and the ways they structure their lives. Bock explores the rules of the game of life, what makes people produce what we produce, the ways they work the earth, the ways we generate companies, the way they produce objects, the institutions that we form, the religions that we have, the kinds of governments that we build, the businesses that function, and all the things that make for the running of life. Delve into our world that is full of cultures and distinct settings and examine the cross-cultural realities and the pluralism that we all live with as human beings.
Top Highlights
“The last thing to be aware of about culture is what makes it up, what makes it tick, and it’s this strange combination of attitudes, values, practices, beliefs, the way the society is structured, and the expectation people have as they interact with these—particularly, practices and structures and beliefs that they go through.” (source)
“So culture isn’t just about a singular culture; it’s about the way different cultures interact with each other and what happens, even, when you move locations even within a country.” (source)
“It’s an accountability to God as creature—that we’re made for relationship to Him” (source)
“So, culture is different in different places. It requires a reading. It requires a reflection, and all of that means the culture requires us to adapt as we move from place to place or as we move from issue to issue.” (source)
“But here, the emphasis is on reconciliation because reconciliation is putting something back together that’s been fractured.” (source)
- Title: CS121 Cultural Engagement and Scripture
- Author: Darrell L. Bock
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Christianity and culture; Education › Christianity and culture
- Resource ID: LLS:CS121BOCK
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:51:37Z
Dr. Darrell L. Bock, research professor of New Testament studies and professor of spiritual development and culture at Dallas Theological Seminary, serves as editor-at-large forChristianity Today, and is on the board of Chosen People Ministries and Wheaton College. From 2000 to 2001, Dr. Bock served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.
He has earned international recognition as a Humboldt Scholar for his work in Luke-Acts, historical Jesus study, biblical theology, as well as with messianic Jewish ministries. He has published articles in the Los Angeles Times and The Dallas Morning News and is a well-known author of over 30 books. His publications include Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and Methods,Jesus According to Scripture, an NIV Application Commentary on Luke, Breaking the Da Vinci Code, and commentaries on Acts and Luke in the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (BECNT) series.