Reading: Barker [Intro]

The definition of culture cited in Barker's Cultural Studies: Theory & Practice is "the actual grounded terrain of practices, representations, languages and customs of any specific society." Obviously the central theme of Barker's theory is analyzing culture of the developed world and not one revolved around an agricultural third-world ancient society.

But when thinking about culture and progress and where society has come in comparison to a culture that doesn't know about the concepts of capitalism, feminism and materialism explained here -- it's a wonder how we've come to this point. We've moved past the modern age, through the postmodern age, and into the information age all within the last few centuries.

But have we "developed" all that much in our thinking about epistemology? With the dawning of the new information age that is changing daily in our midst, I believe it's crucial that our generation develop it's own voices of authority to guide us in a time of change & movement towards a smaller world. Furthermore, it's my hope that we as seminarians can develop our own original answers to questions of truth & knowledge and continue our assault on higher learning even further beyond the truth & knowledge regurgitated, copied and reshaped countless times since a true original like that of Augustine. Either that, or we regress into a gifted student ignoring the signs right in front of us. Your choice.