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21 " David was so filled with ecstasy at this glory-filled vocation (of the creation mandate) that he exclaimed in awe and wonder, "What is man that Thou art mindful of him?... For Thou hast made him a little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honor... Thou hast put all things under his feet." To say that culture is man's calling in the covenant is only another way of saying that culture is religiously determined. "
― , The Calvinistic Concept of Culture
22 " Calvinism furnishes us with the only theology of culture that is truly relevant for the world in which we live, because it is the true theology of the Word. "
23 " Culture is concerned with the world of values. All cultures are irreducibly value-oriented. "
24 " Culture is a sacred activity, an exercise in the sphere of religion. "
25 " The expectation of future glory and the joy of future redemption has its counterpart here and now in the implications for the present life of the believer. "
26 " Religious faith always transcends culture, and is the integrating principle and power of man's cultural striving. "
27 " Christians are called unto holiness and are to be engaged actively in self-purification. They are to walk in good works which have been prepared before, unto which they have been called. But how is it possible to visualize this activity of believers outside of their culture? Is holiness restricted to the life of the soul? "
28 " The Protestant Reformation did not merely seek to cleanse the church and deliver it from doctrinal errors, but it also sought the restoration of the whole of life. "
29 " Through the Reformation, the mechanical relation of nature and grace was superceded by an ethical one, so that the restoration of the law of God in every sphere of life became the concern of the believer. "
30 " Christ has redeemed the cultural agents, thus transforming culture also. "