The Christian and Culture
Rev. Herman Hoeksema addresses the relationship between Christian faith and cultural engagement, tackling fundamental questions about the nature of culture and the proper Christian stance toward it. The lecture directly engages with the Common Grace Controversy and the underlying theological problems of nature and grace that were actively debated in Reformed circles, offering practical guidance for believers navigating cultural participation in their own day.
My subject for this evening is, as was announced, “The Christian and Culture.” The subject was suggested to me from more than one side. First, it was brought to my attention through a Men’s Society of one of our churches. They had been discussing the subject of “Religion and Culture.” But, as may readily be surmised, they found the matter rather too difficult for them to handle, and could reach no satisfactory solution. They sought outside aid and appealed to the editor of our Standard Bearer....