Culture Care Flashcards
What is culture care?
Culture care is a form of creation care. It’s applied generative thinking, applied to the cultural environment. It involves being open to questions of meaning, reaching beyond mere survival, inspiring meaningful action, and leading towards wholeness and harmony
How does culture care relate to God’s creation?
God creates both ex nihilo (out of nothing) and ex creatis (out of creation). God invites humans to be co-creators and stewards of creation, using the materials God has provided. Culture is a gift from God, and culture-making is a calling and an act of obedience. Culture is not a territory to be won or lost, but a garden to be cultivated.
What are the principles that should guide our engagement with culture?
Our engagement with culture should be guided by principles of stewardship, not just progress. This means we should be concerned with how our actions impact the world, rather than just pursuing change for its own sake. We should also consider our engagement with culture as a form of obedience.
What does it mean to approach culture with a generative mindset?
Generativity is a condition for new life and growth, the opposite of degenerate. It involves being open to questions of meaning, reaching beyond mere survival, inspiring meaningful action, and leading toward wholeness and harmony. It is also about thinking about the next generation and how the culture we create will affect them. We can cultivate generosity with our time and attention as an antidote to scarcity.
How does culture making relate to the Fall?
After the Fall, culture making can become “turned away” from its source, the Creator. This can lead to idolatry, where we idolize art or other aspects of culture. However, even after the fall, God continues to hallow culture making, and we are still called to be stewards of it.
What are some barriers to practicing culture care?
An underdeveloped understanding of the call to cultural stewardship
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An overdeveloped attention to individual artistic genius, with an underdeveloped understanding of community and practice
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An underdeveloped understanding of how cultural narratives shape our relationship with art
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An imbalance in critical practice, with an overdeveloped attention to ideology and an underdeveloped attention to craft
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The culture war mentality
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Living in survival mode with a scarcity mindset
How does art relate to culture care?
How we treat art reveals how we really think about culture, because art cannot be reduced to utility. Seeing art as a gift, a calling, and an act of obedience can change how we approach it, helping us to understand how God is present even in the act of creating and experiencing art.
What is the ultimate goal of culture care?
Culture care aims to rehabilitate our worldview, moving from brokenness to wholeness. It is about caring for and cultivating the soul in order to foster a common life.
What are some measures as to assess principles as generative?
-INspiring other people to be creative
-Does it lead to flourishing?
What are culture wars?
People at war over ideas
How is God ex nihlo?
God is the ultimate being, Everything that exists comes out of God, He creates out of nothing
What does James Sire say about culture care?
Worldview is commitment, a fundamental orientation of heart
A story or in a set of presuppositions
Consciously or subconsciously
What is culture care?
Applied generative thinking
What are the four results of applying culture care to the cultural environment?
- Open to questions of meaning
- Reaching beyond mere survival
- Inspiring people to meaningful action
- Leading towards wholeness and harmony
What is a measure by which to assess principles as generative?
Whether culture leads to flourishing
True or False: Culture is everyone’s business.
True
What is the significance of culture wars?
People are in conflict over ideas
What does ‘Creatio ex nihilo’ mean?
God creates out of nothing
What is ‘Creatio ex creatis’?
God creates out of creation
How does God invite humans into the creation process?
As co-creators in the garden
What are the two types of creation God engages in?
- Ex nihilo
- Ex creatis
What does culture require to ‘make’ meaning and value?
Communities
What is the effect of the fall on culture making?
Culture making turned away from the source, the Creator
What does the Tower of Babel symbolize in relation to culture?
Attempting to be God ourselves
