{"product_id":"sabbath-and-culture-a-theology-for-humans-in-tension-hardcover","title":"Sabbath and Culture: A Theology for Humans in Tension - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAbigail Woolley Cutter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow can we be \"in the world though not of it\"?\u003c\/i\u003e Christians are humans like anyone else; we must eat, drink, find shelter, and sustain ties with other people. The Jewish people have preserved their identity and faith amidst diaspora for millennia in the tension between living in one place but belonging somewhere else. The chief gift that has sustained the Jews is the Sabbath; the distinctive behavior of ceasing work every seventh day made them easily recognizable to outsiders. And as it drew them together and set them apart, it safeguarded a sacred place in time for being present with God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book proposes the Sabbath as a strategy for living in tension between this world and the next. It steers a careful path between assimilation with the temporal culture and a response to a divine calling to be set apart. Abigail Cutter resources the Sabbath tradition for a Christian ethic of culture--a concept often paired with the word \"war.\" To think about human culture theologically, however, we must consider it apart from \u003ci\u003epolitical\u003c\/i\u003e battles and come to a deeper understanding of why Christians' relationship to culture has proven so difficult to discern. This consideration of what culture means--specifically in our contested age--lays the groundwork for a renewed cultural theology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSabbath and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e centers on two broad, related questions: Who are humans before God? and Who are humans within culture? Engaging the work of H. Richard Niebuhr, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Charles Taylor, Cutter advocates for a social pattern of \"tensions in equilibrium\" that allows inhabitants of a complex society to imagine the transcendent. The Sabbath has multiple meanings for both Judaism and Christianity; with clarity and candor, Cutter offers a metaphysical-realist vision of how Christians can thoughtfully receive this essentially Jewish practice. Ultimately she shows what the Sabbath means for those of us who wish to live peaceably in a time of deep divisions. The Sabbath, a gift from God, reveals God's concern for justice and peace among all his creatures. \u003ci\u003eWhat would it look like for us to heed this call and keep the Sabbath holy?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbigail Woolley Cutter (PhD Southern Methodist University) is Assistant Professor of Theology at King University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 238\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42757388828768,"sku":"9781481320221","price":125.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/LgiZHohLhw9781481320221.webp?v=1779310521","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/sabbath-and-culture-a-theology-for-humans-in-tension-hardcover","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}