Change the world by James Hunter
Essay One - Christianity and World Changing Chapter 1: Christian Faith and the Task of World-Changing Human beings are, by divine intent and their very nature, world-makers. People fulfill their individual and collective destiny in the art, music, literature, commerce, law, and scholarship they cultivate, the relationships they build, and in the institutions they develop—the families, churches, associations, communities they live in and sustain—as they reflect the good of God and His designs for flourishing. Hunter contends that the dominant ways of thinking about culture and cultural change are flawed, for they are based upon both specious social science and problematic theology. The model upon which various strategies are based not only does not work, but it cannot work. On the basis of this working theory, Christians cannot “ change the world ” in a way that they, even in their diversity, desire. Chapter 2: Culture—The Common View The “common view” is that culture is made u