The way we live now

Discussion about the relationship between Christ and culture is becoming particularly pressing these days. We not only live in a world which is itself forced to address issues of culture, and how different ‘cultures’ can live together, but the declining influence of Christianity in the Western world means that Christians must re-evaluate the place of confessional Christianity in the midst of this. Christians have offered various ways forward, and H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and culture (1951) remains very influential for the kinds of solutions being offered.

Kirsten Birkett