Throughout its history, the Church has always been involved in the task of engaging with culture. Yet the cultural shifts that have been transpiring over the last several decades have catapulted this ever-present task to center stage. One sign of the recovery of the importance of a specifically theological engagement with culture is the birth of Cultural Encounters. This journal promises to provide a much needed forum for Christians from a variety of ecclesial backgrounds and who represent a diversity of theological viewpoints to engage in a scholarly conversation about the implications of a central evangelical conviction that they hold in common, namely, the acknowledgment that Jesus Christ is the Lord of culture.
The Institute for Cultural Engagement, an official program of Multnomah University and Biblical Seminary