Culture consists in drawing out what is implicit in creation, unfolding the various aspects of reality by reacting to and shaping our environment. Culture is to be interpreted in its original sense of "formative control" or "formgiving." This, we recall, is the nuclear moment of the historical sphere; hence Dooyeweerd can say that culture "is the way that reality reveals itself in the historical aspect." The history of human culture is the story of the myriad of ways in which men and women have sought to open up creation through interacting with the natural world and with each other.

—Jeremy Begbie, Voicing Creation's Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts