Concrete Expression
“Culture is not an activity to keep mankind occupied until something else (presumably better) happens. It has a particular God-ordained end in view: the development of the earth into a global network of gardens and cities in harmony with nature-a glorious garden-city. . . . Van Til was describing an inevitable process: artifacts necessarily reveal the worldview of the individual or group who makes them (“by their fruits you will know them”-Matt. 7:20). Thus culture is the concrete expression of a society’s religious and philosophical commitments; it flows out of the heart-as it were-of the society which produces it (Prov. 4:23). —David Hegeman