Mid-Term Guide

Question 1

How does a relational-incarnational approach vary from much of what we see in the church?

Answer 1

Worldview, Market, and a Incarnational-Relational Approach.

Question 2

Worldview Approach

Answer 2

God has a great Argument and explains the world the best

Question 3

Market Approach

Answer 3

Brand and Strategy, God will benefit you and improve life.

Question 4

RI approach

Answer 4

God gives Himself to us fully and sacrificially. We need to do the same

Question 5

How in churches do we see the opposite of the RI Approach (Example = Jesus’ life)

Answer 5

Jesus focused on the other, not himself. Jesus poured himself out and constantly gave himself for the benefits of others

Question 6

How in churches do we see the opposite of the Worldview approach?

Answer 6

Want to be right, and respected, no matter the cost “Speak the truth in love”

Question 7

How in churches do we see the opposite of the market approach?

Answer 7

Bait and switch, attraction

Question 8

CE/IR Scripture

Answer 8

1 Cor 9:19-23

Question 9

The church is a cultural community, but why?

Answer 9

We are ambassadors, ministers, and sojourners.

Question 10

How is theology and culture always in conversation with each other?

Answer 10

The universal gospel is expressed uniquely through particulars in individual cultures

Question 11

How is the gospel expressed in an RI approach in theology and culture

Answer 11

We live and breathe culture, and we also believe it to be true without questioning it. We tend to operate from Christ of culture (Protagonist)

Question 12

What is culture according to Niebuhr?

Answer 12

culture is that total process of human activity and that total result of such activity to which now the name culture, now the name civilization, is applied in common speech. Culture is the ‘artificial, secondary environment; which man superimposes on the natural. IT IS SOCIAL, IT IS HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT. Culture concerns itself with values

Question 13

Five options in Christ and Culture?

Answer 13

Christ of Culture (Protagonist)
Christ against Culture (Antagonist)
Christ and Culture Paradox (Dualist)
Christ above Culture (Synthesist)
Christ Transforming Culture (Transformationalist)

Question 14

Which Position of Niebuhr’s is correct out of the five in our class?

Answer 14

There is no right position, each is applied in its own certain context. I believe that Christ is for culture as well as against culture in some happening stance.

Question 15

Why does M dislike the term transformation of culture?

Answer 15

Transformation implies that something is becoming better.

Question 16

Fundamental blindness to immoral structural realities

Answer 16

We tend to engage from an individual, relational, anti-structural perspective

Question 17

Dualistic

Answer 17

The world is evil, leads to social inaction

Question 18

What does M propose as opposed to a cultural engagement

Answer 18

Take back the inner cities as opposed to America

Question 19

What is God of the Gaps?

Answer 19

God fills the gaps in human knowledge, explains the unknown, and focsued on personal benefit relevance

Question 20

How is God of the gallows thinking different?

Answer 20

God did not come to deliver us from suffering, but we will be delivered through suffering

Question 21

What does the power of christ look like?

Answer 21

Matt. 8:17, Phil 2

Only the suffering God can help

Question 22

Christ’s display of power different from the evangelical concept of power?

Answer 22

Heb. 13:11-14

Question 23

How does all of this inform our theology of cultural engagement?

Answer 23

Make room for your views to be heard as well as others. Cruciform life rather than battle for power

Question 24

How are Occident and Orient different?

Answer 24

Occident: Progress, expansion, advancement, dominance
Orient: Communion, stewardship, simplicity