Week 2 Wednesday: Class Reflection

Today’s class got me wondering about one particular definition of culture. If culture is something to do with a society’s beliefs and customs, then isn’t God’s Kingdom a kind of culture? Should we even think of God’s Kingdom as some kind of culture that trumps or is juxtaposed with “people from every tribe, people, language and nation” (Rev. 5:9)? The reason I wonder this is because the “tradition of the elders” (Mt. 15:2) could be related to “high culture.” And Jesus and his crowd could be considered as part of the folk culture. But Jesus was only opposed to the high culture of his day when it conflicted with “God’s culture.”