How Should Christians Interact With Culture H Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture - Tony Watkins

Tony Watkins is a speaker, writer, and researcher on media and the Bible. He works alongside several organisations including Damaris Norway and the Lausanne Media Engagement Network (as Network Coordinator). He is doing doctoral research on the relationship between the biblical prophets and today’s media and is an adjunct lecturer at Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communications, Norway. Tony has written, or co-written, several books including Focus: The Art and Soul of Cinema and Dark Matter: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Philip Pullman. Tony and his family are involved in Above Bar Church, Southampton.

The year 2021 marks 70 years since the publication of H. Richard Niebuhr’s famous book Christ and Culture. Niebuhr identified five ways in which the church relates to culture, which have shaped virtually all subsequent discussion about the subject. In recent years, more and more Christian thinkers have been reflecting on this, providing thoughtful critiques of Niebuhr’s model and building on it to suggest more helpful ways of thinking about cultural engagement. This workshop will reflect on some of the most helpful of these approaches to see what we can learn about the most effective ways for us to engage culture today.

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