Bel, Valer (2002) Evanghelie si cultura [The Gospel and the Culture]. Theologia Orthodoxa, 47 (1-2). pp. 89-106. ISSN 2065-9474
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This essay deals with the relationship between gospel and culture with its historical problems and its topicality. After a brief historical overview in the first part, in the second part the models of inculturation developed in contemporary western theology are presented. In the third part, systematic considerations are then made. The message of the Gospel encounters the world only in concrete situations of people and human communities that are historically, culturally and socially very different. The Church must not ignore this diversity and impose a culture with which it is historically connected. The Christian faith invades culture like a seed that sprout in ever new forms on different soils, in different climates, while preserving its essence and identity. On the other hand, the proclamation of the Gospel always remains a sign of contradiction, questioning the superiority of every culture and ideology. Faithful to the identity of the gospel, the Christian mission "judges" and undercuts culture in a process of transcending and transfiguring in the image of God's incarnation. Just as the Son of God assumed a concretely human nature and lived as a human being in a certain people, in a concrete social and cultural context and thus became God with us and elevated his humanity into full communion with God, the message of Jesus Christ should also be expressed in jewels of a new culture "incarnate", i.e. take on a new shape that is appropriate to the respective people. So neither alienation from ethnic and cultural values nor a syncretistic accumulation, but a critical assumption from which a new identity emerges as an appropriate medium of communication of the gospel.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | A Church/mission history B Mission theology/theory B Mission theology/theory > Identity issues B Mission theology/theory > Evangelism/Proclamation of Gospel B Mission theology/theory > Contextualization/Inculturation D World Christianity and Central Eastern Europe > Europe G Christian traditions/Denominations > Eastern Orthodox |
| Divisions: | Central Europe Central Europe > Romania |
| Depositing User: | Speranca Tomin |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2022 14:43 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2022 14:43 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/2702 |
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