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Keyword: Culture (Christ)
Expression:

H. Richard Niebuhr's typological assignment of different cultural levels:

1. Those who see Christ against culture and see the need to withdraw from the world

2. To see Christ and culture in paradox - to know the corruption of culture but still believe Christians can live in it with faith in Christ

3. Belief  that while culture is good, it cannot lead to Christ who is above culture

4. Those who see culture as so fully agreeing with Christ that they can make him a Christ of culture

5. Christ transforming culture by acknowledging its sinfulness with hopes of conversion within it

Voice: H. Richard Niebuhr
Circumstance: Lecture at Alumni Foundation Lectures at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1949
Citation:
Read More: Christ and Culture (Torchbooks)