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About the Book The only way to change culture is to create culture. Andy Crouch unleashes a stirring manifesto calling Christians to be culture makers. He unpacks the complexities of how culture works and gives us tools for cultivating and creating culture in partnership with God's own making and transforming of culture. Book Synopsis <ul> <li>2009 Christianity Today Book Award winner</li> <li>Named one of Publishers Weekly's best books of 2008 (religion category) </li> </ul>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. Review Quotes Culture Making is a book that's been needed for decades, but it arrives at just the right moment. People of faith--now poised to use their influence--have much to contribute to the common good as creators and advocates, not just as critics and judges. But that requires careful thought and clear insight, both of which are abundantly found in this profound and practical book. Andy Crouch has long had a knack for observing the culture around us and then showing us how we can make it better. With Culture Making, Crouch offers all that and more. Anyone who cares for the renewal of our culture must read this book!--D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power and assistant professor of sociology, Rice University In Culture Making, Andy Crouch has given us a vision for creativity that is not reserved for the practitioners of high art, but that reveals the dignity of the most ordinary sorts of cultural creation. It is a transformative vision that inspires to action and--in the face of the almost inevitable failures--perseverance. In the end, cultural creativity is not a gift we own, exercise and grow anxious over, but one that we receive and nurture--and through which we come to know grace.--David Neff, editor-in-chief and vice president, Christianity Today Media Group Culture Making is a fresh and relevant take on how Christians should relate to the wider culture. This book will serve to make us more effective interpreters of and contributors to the cultural landscape.--Eric O. Jacobsen, PRISM, January 2009 Culture Making is an enjoyable and fascinating book that helps demystify the idea of culture.--John Dunham, YouthWorker Journal, November/December 2008 A masterpiece!--Byron Borger, owner, Hearts Minds Bookstore [from the 2015 Jubilee program guide] Andy Crouch, long a culture influence through film, writing, music and service, points Christians to a new, deeper understanding of their calling in culture. Readers will be profoundly impacted by this book written by one of today's top voices on the subject.--Ann Byle, Grand Rapids Press, August 16, 2008 As an academic and a culture critic, I am not given to gushing over new publications. But Culture Making brought me pretty close to doing just such a non-scholarly thing! With so much coming out these days on religion and culture, one becomes a bit jaded about the possibility of something really fresh emerging. Well, this book is fresh, compelling, and engagingly written. More important, it goes deeply into its subject.--William Edgar, Themelios (thegospelcoalition.org), vol. 33, no. 3 Crouch works through the Bible's narrative arc to show the hand of God in the development of culture and makes the case that Christians must be producers, not just critics, of culture in order to create societal good.--Relevant, July/August 2008 Crouch writes as one who cares what Christians do with their time in light of God's Kingdom coming.--On Mission Today, January 14, 2009 Crouch's voice is intriguing and fresh--offering an alternative that escapes the many 'Jesus-stamped' merchandise items as an evangelical tool and implementing a fresh vision for creativity and engaging cultural lifestyles.--Worship Leader, November/December 2008 Good introduction to how Christians need to do more than fatalistically talk about the dangers of the world.--Marvin Olasky, WORLD Magazine, November 15/22, 2008 If people tell me that something is a must-read, I tend to be a bit skeptical. That said, I was pleasantly blown-away by Crouch's book. I loved the approach of talking about 'postures' and 'gestures' toward culture. One last thing to praise was the chaste humility of the book. All to say, Culture Making probably is one of those rare must-read books that comes along every so often. A book of rare learning, helpful and accessible synthesis, and godly humility, it might actually change the evangelical culture on how to make and engage culture. If so, all I can say is thanks be to God.--Sean Michael Lucas, seanmichaellucas.blogspot.com, September 18, 2008 Simply the best book that I've read recently. Not only is it brilliant, it's accessible. I cannot gush about this book enough. It really is that good.--Margaret Feinberg, Christian Retailing, July 6, 2009 Theologically rich and practically helpful, Culture Making is a significant contribution to the discussion of Christ and culture and a useful guide for those who want to make something of the world God has created.--Outreach, March/April 2009 This book will clarify your thinking, inspire your production, and affirm your parenting.--David Balzer, Mennonite Brethren Herald, August 2009 This is a must-read book for those who are tired of talking and ready for action. The author sets the scene and tells the story of culture, then rapidly sweeps the reader into this story, finishing with a heart-stopping, imagination-grabbing challenge to go and make something of the world.--Alissa W., Book Bargains and Previews (bookbargainsandpreviews.com), September 2008 Those who have struggled with the sacred-secular dichotomy will find this book life-giving; every Christian interested in changing culture should read it.--Publishers Weekly starred review, May 26, 2008 Thoughtful and engaging. . . . Crouch's book does signal a hopeful development, which is that the evangelical pursuit of culture warfare was and is a dead end.--D. G. Hart, First Principles (www.firstprinciplesjournal.com), March 23, 2009 Very readable and thought-provoking.--Byron Snapp, Calvary Herald, August 29, 2009 With all the books on the market about the intersection of faith and culture, you have to wonder why we need another one. The answer is simple: it's unlikely that any other book out there accomplishes what Culture Making does, and certainly not in the way that Andy Crouch does. Substantial content, beautifully expressed. Highly recommended.--Marcia Ford, FaithfulReader.com, September 2008

Culture Making - by Andy Crouch (Paperback)

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