INTRO V The Natural Law Type [Christ of Culture: The Accommondationalist Type]
-"ought be called cultural type, since nature is known only through culture and since
the members tend to interpret and seek good and right as members of the cultural society"
-interpret revelation of values and imperatives through Christ from the standpoint of the common reason of their culture
-in general at home in their culture
In more Detail
                   1. "imperatives of Jesus regarded as republications of the law of reason and nature"
                   values of Christian life are religious formations of the values of
                   natural and social existence as understood by culture at its best
                   2. "interpretation of gospel values and demands through culture."
                   "elements most intelligible to culture are taken as primary and they are
                   understood in the context of the culture"
                   3. "those elements in culture ethics are selected as normative which are
                   most in agreement with the New Testament
                   ("does not simply sanction prevailing culture...it emphasizes the
                   "ideal" in that morality")
                    4. harmony; melioristic (depends on human action) rather than
                   separatist or revolutionary
                   keeps another world as an extention of the best parts of this age
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