“Athens, Here We Come!” (1)

What has Jerusalem to do with Athens? This is the question theologians put when considering the matter of how the Church, Jerusalem, is related and relates to the world, Athens. Put another way, the question is How is the Church, and how are the people of God in that Church a part of or not a part of the culture of a fallen world? And if by "culture" is meant "the ideas, customs, skills, arts, etc. of a given people in a given period; civilization" (New World Dictionary), then the question is...