Week1 - Bevans, Chapter 1

In the last few years I always had these questions about Christianity and culture.

What do we bring from our culture to our churches? Is it good? Can we strip it from it? Is there a “culture-free” religion or theology?

Bevans seems to say that contextualization is an imperative. I guess theology is useless if it doesn’t reveal who God is to people, in that sense, and it needs to be adapted to different kind of people’s kind of needs and worldviews.

I do still have questions about the nature of this theology. In all times and context, theology has obviously been mixed with cultural factors and traditions. The Bible itself was written in a specific cultural context. How do we know what is crucial (if I may say) and what is secondary?