“...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews are to come to God and relate to Him in terms of their own cultural vehicles. We see the Bible endorsing, then, a doctrine we call biblical sociocultural adequacy in which each culture is taken seriously but none advocated exclusively as the only one acceptable to God.” CultureTermTakenNotesJewDoctrineRelateCustomsAcceptableVehicleBiblicalGentilesAdequacyEndorsingJewish Culture Book:Anthropology for Christian Witness Source: Anthropology for Christian Witness
“The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers of what it perpetually promises. The promissory note which, with its plots and staging, it draws on pleasure is endlessly prolonged; the promise, which is actually all the spectacle consists of, is illusory: all it actually confirms is that the real point will never be reached, that the diner must be satisfied with the menu.” RealCulturePleasureIndustryPromiseDrawsNotesSatisfiedConsumersPlotCheatIllusoryMenusDinersStaging Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment
“I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.” MenWayCultureEducationTreeDutyCircumstancesSickGreenNotesPhilosopherWideAcknowledgeCharacteristicsYellowAccuracyDwarfsOmnipotenceDwarvesCabbage Author:Thomas Carlyle
“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.” ThinkingMenTryingKindArtPastRememberCultureForgetInterestingPoorCitiesStudyToo MuchStudentsPaintingNotesAll KindsOld ManMuseumsThickSculptureSpectatorsIntroductionInteresting ThingsTouristsOld WomanLooking For LoveRemembering The PastLoafersArt Students Author:Marvin L. Cohen