Culture is a continuing, forward process-the gradual unveiling of truth as life.
But often we get ensnarled.
We can only imagine culture as a war, a gritty ideological and religious struggle where every arena is bloody with strife: art, philosophy, cuisine, music, literature, science.
But at its foundation, culture is about building, not conflict.
The time has come for us to beat our swords into plowshares.
By realizing the Bible's vision for a cultivated earth, we can build a more comprehensive, radical, holistic culture, resistant to compromise and dedicated to a Trinitarian aesthetic.
What does this culture look like? It is the development of the earth into a global fabric of gardens and cities in harmony with nature-a glorious garden-city.
Plowing in Hope provides a positive, clear, and colorful introduction to this transformational topic.
David Hegeman's approach is refreshingly different.
He maps out a positive theology of culture building rooted in Creation and extending into the New Jerusalem.
His wonderful little book, based on sound Biblical exegesis, presents a compelling case for why and how we should build a culture that magnifies God and ennobles men.
-David Ayers, Grove City College, Pennsylvania.
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