Culture Is What We Make Of The World Analysis

Introduction: In Culture Making Recovering Our Creative Calling, Andy Crouch exposes the fallacies way in which proponents of worldview have analyzed the concept of culture and argues for the need and responsibility for Christians to create and cultivate culture, rather than merely analyze it (Chaplin, 2010). Crouch (2008) seeks to answer the following questions: “What is it, exactly, that we are called to do in the world? Are we called to transform culture or to change the world?” (p. 11). Crouch attempts to define the concept of culture and why it matters by introducing academic research on the nature of culture with extensive theological study, and Crouch and defines how we may create culture within our own sphere of influence (Culture Making, 2008). Major Points: Part

94). Chapter one addresses the common misconceptions many people have about term (Chaplin, 2010). Moreover, Crouch (2008) adapts the definition of culture from Ken Myers, “to distill the true meaning of culture and why it matters: Culture is what we make of the world” (p. 23). Crouch asserts that we were created in God’s image and therefore, just like the Creator, we too are creators, and something is added in every act of making (Crouch, 2008). Furthermore, Crouch (2008) asserts that culture is also how, “we make sense of the world by making something of the world” (p. 24). According to Crouch (2008), “meaning and making go together, culture, you could say, is the activity of making meaning” (p. 24). Next, Crouch introduces numerous overlapping spheres and scales of culture, for instance, “from the intimate scale of the culture of the nuclear family or the local café to that of the corporate world or film industry” (Chaplin, 2010, pp. 88-89). Crouch concludes by arguing that there is no such thing as “the Culture,” especially in terms of “transforming the Culture” (Crouch,