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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Callingby: Andy Crouch  List Price: $20.00 Amazon.com's Price: $13.60 You Save: $6.40 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 261.0973 EAN: 9780830833948 ISBN: 0830833943 Label: IVP Books Manufacturer: IVP Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 284 Publication Date: 2008-08 Publisher: IVP Books Studio: IVP Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: It is not enough to condemn culture. Nor is it sufficient merely to critique culture or to copy culture. Most of the time, we just consume culture. But the only way to change culture is to create culture. Andy Crouch unleashes a stirring manifesto calling Christians to be culture makers. For too long, Christians have had an insufficient view of culture and have waged misguided "culture wars." But we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators that God designed us to be. Culture is what we make of the world, both in creating cultural artifacts as well as in making sense of the world around us. By making chairs and omelets, languages and laws, we participate in the good work of culture making. Crouch unpacks the complexities of how culture works and gives us tools for cultivating and creating culture. He navigates the dynamics of cultural change and probes the role and efficacy of our various cultural gestures and postures. Keen biblical exposition demonstrates that creating culture is central to the whole scriptural narrative, the ministry of Jesus and the call to the church. He guards against naive assumptions about "changing the world," but points us to hopeful examples from church history and contemporary society of how culture is made and shaped. Ultimately, our culture making is done in partnership with God's own making and transforming of culture. A model of his premise, this landmark book is sure to be a rallying cry for a new generation of culturally creative Christians. Discover your calling and join the culture makers. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Modus Operandi for Artists of FaithI commend Crouch's fresh approach to creativity as a call to cultivate and conserve, but hope to inscribe two parts of the book deeply into my mind via prayer. First, his thoughts about the possibilities of acquiring Mother Theresa's beautiful creases. And second, the insightful summary of how to keep our relationship to money, sex, and power at the foot of the Cross. Generosity and simplicity, fidelity and chastity, service and stewardship. Highly recommended ... Read More Rating: - A Book that Will Create Culture of Its OwnLet's reclaim the culture for Christ! We need to transform the culture! Let's redeem the culture! We should resist the culture! What do these phrases really mean? What do we mean by "culture" when we talk about transforming it? Is it our Christian calling to redeem "culture?" Andy Crouch's new book Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling (IVP, 2008) is a landmark work that will create a new culture of its own within evangelicalism. Crouch ... Read More Rating: - An Important Guide to Making Something of Your WorldYep, this is another five-star review of Andy Crouch's remarkable work. I simply can't help it. "Culture Making" is excellent. It's highly readable while also being intellectually challenging. It's thorough and comprehensive without feeling bulky or awkward. It's thoughtful, memorable, and actionable. It's one of those rare (and timeless) books that is both something you should read and that you'll enjoy reading. From cover to cover, there's much for individual Christians and ... Read More Rating: - Definitive.Andy Crouch's Culture Making is everything that readers familiar with his writing will expect: witty, readable, wise, funny, and thoughtful. This book offers a much-needed corrective to outdated modes of Christians engaging culture. It also provides a constructive platform for any future Evangelical/Christian explorations of culture. Crouch argues that Christians are called to be creators and cultivators of culture (as opposed to being primarily critiquers, condemners, consumers, etc.). ... Read More Rating: - A clear voice on vocationSomeone once told me that our twenties are about figuring out who we are, and our thirties are about figuring out what we should be doing with our lives. I'd say that's about right, in my own limited experience. A mid-career switch from a steady and well-paid job I was good at to a couple of iterations of a new vocation I'm not sure I'm good enough at--this has been the story of my life in my thirties, and I've sometimes gotten pretty lost in all of it. The Church's varied, and usually unsolicited, opinions ... Read More 
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