Cultural Hermeneutics

Roger Standing is an ordained minister and educator with over forty years of experience as a church leader. From local church leadership in Liverpool, Yorkshire and London, he has also served as a Regional Minister/Team Leader with the Baptist Union of GB and taught missiology at Spurgeon’s College, where latterly he served as Principal. He is the author of several books.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: liberty from slavish conformity and seductive allure1.Culture: the inescapable reality2.Culture and theology: exploring the relationship3.Towards a Theo-cultural understanding of the world4.Interrogating culture: reading and interpreting the world around us5.Cultural hermeneutics: reading and interpreting the world through the lens of theologyConclusion: evangelising our cultureAppendix 1 Representative reflections on defining the concept of cultureAppendix 2 Frameworks for interrogating cultureAppendix 3 Interrogative questionsBibliographyIndex of biblical referencesIndex

"Cultural Hermeneutics is a tract for the times about how to read the signs of the times, and to do so theologically. To make disciples of all cultures, we must first understand it. After surveying other disciplinary approaches, Standing offers his own theological proposal for interpreting culture 'in the Spirit,' a prophetic activity of Christian discernment for the sake of faithful presence."