Culture Philosophical Emphases of Theological Thinking in the ELCB

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1 ROB93, 2. 2 See chapter 2.2. 3 Robinson refers to culture as the heartbeat of the nation: "What is culture? One of several definitions of culture is that culture is the heartbeat, or the pulse of a nation. As the human heartbeat tells a lot about how the body functions, so does culture tell us how a nation, a people, go about its life in general; how its life is organised from the cradle to the grave and beyond" (ROB96a, 1). 4 ROB98, 2. 5 MOE05a, 16. 6 According to Korkman & Yrjönsuuri (2003, 447), an explanation which merely takes into account relations between the separated fragments of the whole, cannot be regarded as holistic. 7 MOE05a, 16; also ROB97, 2. 8 MOE05a, 16.