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The only way to change culture is to create culture.

Most of the time, we just consume or copy culture. But that is not enough. We must also do more than condemn or critique it. The only way to change it is to create it.

For too long, Christians have had an insufficient view of culture and have waged misguided "culture wars." But Andy Crouch says we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators God designed us to be. Culture is what we make of the world, both in making cultural artifacts as well as in making sense of the world around us.

In this expanded edition of his award-winning book Crouch unpacks the complexities of how culture works, the dynamics of cultural change, and tools for cultivating culture. Keen biblical exposition demonstrates that creating culture is central to the whole scriptural narrative, the ministry of Jesus, and the call to the church. With a conversation between Crouch and Tish Harrison Warren as the new afterword, this expanded edition addresses the current landscape and forges a way for the future of culture making. Enter into it withguided questions for reflection and discussion for a deeper experience.



Andy Crouch (MDiv, Boston University School of Theology) is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, an organization that works as a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship. His books include The Tech-Wise Family, Playing God, and Strong and Weak.







Tish Harrison Warren is a priest in the Anglican Church in North America. She writes a weekly newsletter for the New York Times and is a columnist for Christianity Today. She is also the author of Prayer in the Night andLiturgy of the Ordinary. She lives with her husband, Jonathan, and their three children in the Austin, Texas, area.



Preface to the Paperback Edition

Introduction



Part One: Culture

1. The Horizons of the Possible

2. Cultural Worlds

3. Teardowns, Technology and Change

4. Cultivation and Creation

5. Gestures and Postures



Part Two: Gospel

6. The Garden and the City

Interlude: The Primordial Story

7. The Least of the Nations

8. Jesus as Culture Maker

9. From Pentecost . . .

10. . . . To Revelation

11. The Glorious Impossible



Part Three: Calling

12. Why We Can't Change the World

13. The Traces of God

14. Power

15. Community

16. Grace



Postscript: Artist in His Studio

Afterword: A Conversation Between Andy Crouch and Tish Harrison Warren

Acknowledgments

Questions for Reflection and Discussion by Al Hsu and Nate Barksdale

Notes and Further Reading

Index