| Abbreviations |
ix |
| Introduction |
xi |
| PART ONE: INCULTURATION, ITS NATURE AND FUNCTION |
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| 1 Understanding the Terms |
3 |
| Culture |
4 |
| Enculturation |
5 |
| Acculturation |
6 |
| Cultural Domination |
8 |
| Inculturation |
10 |
| Interculturation |
13 |
| 2 Evolution of the Church's Understanding of Culture |
17 |
| Classicist and Modern Views of Culture |
17 |
| The Problem of Cultural Relativism |
23 |
| Religion and the Relativization of Culture |
26 |
| 3 Culture and Religion |
31 |
| Culture as a Social Phenomenon |
31 |
| The Levels of Culture |
35 |
| Religion as Cultural System |
40 |
| 4 Cultural Change |
45 |
| Types of Cultural Change |
45 |
| Modernization and Technological Change |
51 |
| Christianity and Cultural Change |
54 |
| 5 The Christian Term of Inculturation |
59 |
| The Subject-Matter of Inculturation |
59 |
| Culture and the Christian Patrimony |
63 |
| Culture and Communion in a World Church |
67 |
| PART TWO: THE THEOLOGY OF INCULTURATION |
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| 6 Christology and Inculturation |
75 |
| The Eternal Logos at the Heart of Culture |
75 |
| The Logic of the Incarnation |
79 |
| The Challenge of the Paschal Mystery |
83 |
| 7 Inculturation and Salvation |
89 |
| The Necessity of Baptism |
89 |
| Minimum Explicit Faith and Implicit Faith |
93 |
| The Church and Other Religious Cultural Systems |
96 |
| 8 Inculturation in the Old Testament |
104 |
| God's Acculturation |
104 |
| The Canaanite Inculturation |
109 |
| The Tension Between Israel's Election and Universal Mission |
111 |
| The Cultural Implications of the Wisdom Economy |
114 |
| The Jewish Encounter with Hellenism |
116 |
| 9 Jesus and Culture |
119 |
| Jesus: Promise to the Nations |
119 |
| Paul, the Apostle of the Nations |
122 |
| The Church of Jerusalem and the Church of Corinth |
128 |
| PART THREE: MISSION AND CULTURATION |
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| 10 Inculturation and the Early Missions |
137 |
| The Rise of the Eastern Churches |
138 |
| Gregory I and the Anglo-Saxon Mission |
141 |
| Saints Cyril and Methodius |
143 |
| The Christian Kingdom of the Kongo |
145 |
| The Dialogue of Faith and Culture in Medieval Europe |
148 |
| 11 Inculturation and the Post-Reformation Missions |
152 |
| Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Culture |
152 |
| The Congregation de Propaganda Fide |
155 |
| Matteo Ricci and the Chinese Rites |
157 |
| Roberto de Nobili in India |
160 |
| Pedro Paez in Ethiopia |
160 |
| Lessions of the Counter-Reformation Missions |
161 |
| 12 Mission and Culture in the Nineteenth Century |
164 |
| Vatican I and Anti-Modernism |
164 |
| Nineteenth-Century Missionary Founders and Culture |
168 |
| Protestant Cultural Approaches to Mission |
173 |
| PART FOUR: THE TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON |
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| INCULTURATION TODAY |
177 |
| 13 Evolution of the Church's Thought Before Vatican II |
179 |
| The Early Mission Encyclicals of this Centuty |
179 |
| The Recognition of Cultural Pluralism by Plus XII |
183 |
| John XXIII and the Equality of Cultures in the Church |
186 |
| 14 The Second Vatican Council and Inculturation |
191 |
| The Practical Question of Liturgical Reform |
191 |
| Cultures in the Mission Documents of the Council |
195 |
| Culture in the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World |
200 |
| 15 Inculturation in the Teaching of Paul VI |
206 |
| The Message to Africa and the Kampala Address |
206 |
| The 1974 Synod of Bishops |
211 |
| The Apostolic Exhortation on Evangelization in the Modern World |
215 |
| 16 John Paul II and Inculturation |
222 |
| Catechesis in Our Time |
222 |
| The First African Journey |
225 |
| The Council for Culture and the Apostles of the Slavs |
230 |
| Before and After the Extraordinary Synod |
233 |
| PART FIVE: THE FUTURE OF INCULTURATION IN THE CATHOLIC |
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| CHURCH |
239 |
| 17 Development of Inculturation? |
241 |
| The Relevance of Inculturation for Development |
241 |
| Cultural Development |
245 |
| Inculturation and Liberation |
247 |
| 18 Ecclesical Communion in the Multicultural Church |
251 |
| Inculturation from Below |
251 |
| A Multicultural Patrimony |
254 |
| Ecclesical Partnership |
257 |
| 19 Inculturation at the Grass-Roots |
261 |
| Cultural Realism and Creativity |
261 |
| Inculturation as a Community Project |
264 |
| Inculturation as a Way of Life |
267 |