This series of lectures from Ike Reeder, President of Birmingham Theological Seminary, covers key questions about Christianity and culture: What is culture? What are the Christian views on engaging culture? What is a Reformed Christian view on cultural engagement? What are some practical lessons on how we can engage culture as Christians? To answer these questions, Ike draws from Christian thinkers and philosophers like T.S. Eliot, Hans Rookmaaker, J. Gresham Machen, C.S. Lewis, and others to develop an approach to culture that equips followers of Jesus to be cultural engagers, cultural defenders and cultural creaters.
We’ve spent the last 9 weeks studying Christianity and culture from the very basics of defining what culture is to understanding multiple paradigms th...
Should we be pessimistic or optimistic about the possibility of cultural change? Is the current culture redeemable and full of common grace, or fundam...
In this episode of Christ and Culture, Ike Reeder takes a deep dive into Richard Neibur's 5 approaches to confronting the world. To get the most out o...
The Apostle Paul exhorts us in 1 Corinthians 10:31 that whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do, do all to the glory of God. However, the way we ex...
If we are called by God to be culture makers through the creation mandate and within the context of the second commandment, how then shall we live? I...
The 2nd Commandment teaches us that we are not to make image or likeness of anything in heaven and earth. So what does that mean for the creative proc...
To see culture through a biblical lens, particularly as it relates to the arts, we must first understand how God views the creative process. What does...
What is a Reformed Christian view of cultural engagement? To understand the Bible’s theology of culture and answer the question, we have to go back to...
It seems obvious to us that we live in a specific culture, but many of us would struggle to define exactly what culture is and even more-so how, as Ch...