Theology of Culture

  • Bleeker, Claas Jouco. Christ in modern Athens: the confrontation of Christianity with modern culture and the non-Christian religions. London: A. R. Mowbray, 1966.*
  • Carter, Craig A. Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2006.*
  • Doran, Robert M. Theological Foundations, Vol. 2: Theology and Culture. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press 1995.*
  • Gorringe, Timothy J. Furthering Humanity: A Theology of Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing 2004.*
  • Greene, Colin J. D. Christology in cultural perspective: marking out the horizons. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B Eerdmans Publishing, 2003.*
  • Henry, Carl F. H. Quest for Reality: Christianity and the Counter Culture. Downers Grove, Il: InterVarsity Press, 1973.*
  • Kraft, Charles H. Christianity In Culture: A Study in Biblical Theologizing in Cross-cultural Perspective. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005.*
  • Newbigin, Lesslie. Foolishness to the Greeks: the Gospel and western culture. London: SPCK 1986.*
  • Niebuhr, Helmut Richard. Christ and Culture. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1951.*
  • Regan, Hilary, Alan J. Torrance and Antony Wood, ed. Christ and context: the confrontation between Gospel and culture. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1993.*
  • Schaeffer, Francis August. How should we the live? the rise and decline of western thought and culture. Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1976.*
  • Scriven, Charles. The transformation of culture: Christian social ethics after H. Richard Niebuhr. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1988.*
  • Shorter, Aylward. Toward a theology of inculturation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989.*
  • Sweet, Leonard, A. Crouch, M. Horton, F. Mathewes-Green and E. R. McManus. The church in emerging culture: five perspectives. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing, 2003.*
  • Tillich, Paul J. Theology of Culture. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1959.*
  • Van Til, Henry. The Calvinistic Concept of Culture. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publish, 1959.*
  • Vanhoozer, Kevin J., ed. The Trinity in a pluralistic age: theological essays on culture and religion. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B. Eerdmans, 1997.*
  • Ward, Graham. Christ and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers 2005.*
  • Zacharias, Ravi K. Deliver Us from Evil: restoring the soul in a disintegrating culture. Dallas, TX: Word Publishing, 1996.*

Focus on Non-western World (Third World Theologies)

  • Foster, Hal. The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. New York, NY: The New Press, 1998.
  • Mirzoeff, Nicholas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge, 2009.
  • Poon, Michael Nai-Chiu, and John Roxborogh, ed. Handbook of Popular Spiritual Movements in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Singapore: Trinity Theological College, 2015.*
  • Sng, Bobby Ewe Kong, and Choong Chee Pang, ed. Church and Culture: Singapore context. Singapore: Graduates’ Christian Fellowship, 1991.*
  • Wickeri, Philip Lauri, and Lois Cole. Christianity and modernization: a Chinese debate. Hong Kong: Daga Press, 1995.*

 

*Refers to those written from a Christian perspective.