The goal of this article is to explore the theology of cultural engagement with focus on the fine arts, and to redress a common misunderstanding, certainly in practice if not in theory as well. Looking at Cornelius Van Til’s engagement with Abraham Kuyper on the noetic effects of the fall and regeneration, I diagnose the cultural problem as one of imbalance: the subjective supervenes on the objective, so to speak, so that cultural spheres themselves succumb to the soteric status of regenerate or unregenerate image bearers. Hans Rookmaaker corroborates this account and helps clarify several ways in which this framework translates aesthetically and undermines Christian witness in the arts, cultural disadvantages caught by William Edgar as well. Borrowing from Rookmaaker, Kuyper, and Edgar, I then propose a repaired theology of culture and the artistic sphere.

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艺术中的基督教文化失败主义

本文的目的是探索文化参与的神学，重点关注美术，并纠正一个常见的误解，当然，如果不是理论上的话，当然也是在实践中。看看科尼利厄斯·范蒂尔与亚伯拉罕·凯珀就堕落和重生的理性影响的接触，我将文化问题诊断为一种不平衡：主观上可以说是客观上的，所以文化领域本身屈服于神圣的地位再生或非再生图像承载。Hans Rookmaaker 证实了这个说法，并帮助澄清了这个框架在美学上转化的几种方式，并破坏了艺术中的基督教见证，威廉埃德加也抓住了文化劣势。借用 Rookmaaker、Kuyper 和 Edgar，