Six Factors Impacting our Understanding of Christ and Culture

We have the same biblical texts that earlier generations of Christians thought their way through, of course, but our reflections are shaped by six unique factors.

(1) Especially in the Anglo-Saxon world, discussion of these matters cannot ignore the programmatic analysis of H. Richard Niebuhr. I shall return to him in a moment.

(2) We live at a time when diverse voices are clamoring for the right to dictate what the relationships between Christ and culture ought to be.

(3) Owing to modern communication technology and to immigration patterns that have made many…