Culture and the Story of God

There is a long trail of contextualized theologies, written over the last half century, in which the external dimension virtually replaces the internal, cultural aspects eclipse biblical norms, and the result has been the kind of compromise, trendiness, and manipulation which ends up promoting worldly agendas, be they political, social, ideological, or personal, in place of biblical truth. This has been a sorry tale. And somewhere in the making of each of its works the fatal step was taken to allow the culture to say what God's story should sound like rather than insisting that theology is not theology if it is not listening to God telling his own story in his own way.

David F. Wells, Above All Earthly Pow'rs: Christ in a Postmodern World, p. 6-7