ABSTRACT
Concentrating on music, literature, the visual arts and drama, this chapter examines evangelical engagement with these disciplines in a series of contexts: the home, worship, as a means of evangelism, and when evangelical cultural creations were created and consumed by others in the society at large. Despite confronting secular artistic production for its godlessness, evangelicals often domesticated its forms for their own purposes. Evangelicals had also to engage with artistic production and consumption outside their control: amongst their neighbours, in local theatres, concert and music halls, in print, and on national and local broadcast media. In addition, the inclusive definition of culture clears the way for the consideration of forms of artistic production, such as heavy metal music or the 'Left Behind' novels, which are excluded by higher-pitched definitions of art. Evangelical theologies of culture have at root been theologies of the Fall.
