Culture Quote by Heath White

“Every institution is affected by the culture in which it lives and especially the culture in which it was born. That includes my church and denomination as well as yours.” quote by Heath White — Download Open image

““Every institution is affected by the culture in which it lives and especially the culture in which it was born. That includes my church and denomination as well as yours.””

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“Literature, not science or theology, is the master discipline, the paradigm of inquiry, for postmoderns.”

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“Faith in the power of reason is the central pillar of the modern worldview.”

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“We are born in both intellectual and moral darkness. We need the influence of the Holy Spirit—in the life of Jesus Christ, in the…

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“the church is part of God’s plan for every Christian, that Christian selves are a work in progress that cannot be left to the…

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“The modern period is defined by a distinctive worldview, forged in all its essentials during the Enlightenment, which we’ll label “modernism” for lack of…

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“The history of the church has reflected the evolution from premodernism to modernism in many ways. One clear example lies in the changing structure…

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“Postmodernism involves the loss of any hope that some larger-than-human force—be it God or History or Progress or Science or Reason—is going to come to the aid of humanity and make everything all right in the end. Postmoderns believe that we make our own bed, historically speaking, and we have to lie in it; and that’s all there is to…

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“The ways you and I conduct our Christian lives and the churches we attend are culturally influenced,”

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“for instance, a sermon from Romans on the difference between the man under law and the man under grace may not make much impact,…

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“as the tides of history rise and fall, worldviews rise and fall with them,”

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“Christians ought to be troubled by the postmodern rejection of moral absolutes. But in responding, the first task is to get our own house…

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