LOCAL CULTURES and the UNIVERSAL

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It is important to understand the way in which cultures interact with each other, and their social function, when exploring the link between culture and the dissemination of ideas, political and religious as well as cultural. Civilized forms of exchange, affected the way people thought, and related to their natural environment. Knowledge systems, along with primal beliefs that link the human to the Divine, brought about ways of worship, and a sense of sacred space. Temples and images gave coherence to the spiritual orientation underlying a cultural world view. A prevailing cosmology provided meaning to the social and political order, and helped in the establishment of empires which were forever extending their boundaries.
A concept of the universal, includes the diversity of cultures within an over-arching framework of interconnecting symbols. The temple or holy place for worship, is a microcosm that reflects the unity of a divinely ordained cosmos. The local, or particular, is given the significance of a part, reflecting a teleological whole.
The relation of Gospel to culture also influences the way in which we understand modern ecological issues, where industry and science are effecting our whole environment. Globalization of culture is part of the problem when thinking about the importance of local cultures, in relation to their natural and geographic context.

important to understand connecting links between cultures, and their social function, when exploring the link between culture and the dissemination of ideas, political and religious as well as cultural. Civilized forms of exchange, affected the way people thought, and related to their natural environment. Knowledge systems, along with primal beliefs that link the human to the Divine, brought about ways of worship, and a sense of sacred space. Temples and images gave coherence to the spiritual orientation underlying a cultural world view. A prevailing cosmology provided meaning to the social and political order, and helped in the establishment of empires which were forever extending their boundaries.
A concept of the universal, includes the diversity of cultures within an over-arching framework of interconnecting symbols. The temple or holy place for worship, is a microcosm that reflects the unity of a divinely ordained cosmos. The local, or particular, is given the significance of a part, reflecting a teleological whole.
The relation between culture and nature is a vital concern when thinking about the way that environmental issues affect our understanding of the Gospel in the modern globalized and industrialized world.

It is important to understand roads of communication, and their social function, when exploring the link between culture and the dissemination of ideas, political and religious as well as cultural. Civilized forms of exchange, affected the way people thought, and related to their natural environment. Knowledge systems, along with primal beliefs that link the human to the Divine, brought about ways of worship, and a sense of sacred space. Temples and images gave coherence to the spiritual orientation underlying a cultural world view. A prevailing cosmology provided meaning to the social and political order, and helped in the establishment of empires which were forever extending their boundaries.
A concept of the universal, includes the diversity of cultures within an over-arching framework of interconnecting symbols. The temple or holy place for worship, is a microcosm that reflects the unity of a divinely ordained cosmos. The local, or particular, is given the significance of a part, reflecting a teleological whole.