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... " It is inculturation, that “seeks to dispose people to receive Jesus Christ in an integral manner. ... " Inculturation, therefore, “is the ever renewed incarnation of the mystery of Christ in salvation history" . For "the incarnation of the Word was also a cultural incarnation" , then it is the supreme model and perfect realization of any process of inculturation.
Incarnation of the Word of God is inculturation
Even though the mystery and the trancendence of the Incarnation of the Word of God could not be comprehended by any human form of conceptualization or inculturation, providently the destination of the divine word is our conceptual and cultural milieu, it is "for us and for our salvation". The conceptualization and inculturation of the divine word is possible and already actualized in the event of the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
The incarnation of the Son of God was also an incarnation in a particular culture. ...
The incarnation-inculturation of Jesus fully realized through: “the completely filial intimacy and the loving obedience, which caused offer his life and death to his Father” in the mystery of death and resurrection. ... The Incarnation of the Word of God into the culture, his passion, death and resurrection, therefore, involve to two united aspects: a salvific work that liberates men, cultures and the whole world from the power of evil; and a new creation that affords human beings the participation in to the eternal life. ... Departed from the event of Pentecost, the church prolongs the Incarnation in the history of human beings, in other words, the church inculturates Christ into the world. ... Every act of faith in Jesus is the inculturation of Christ realized by Holy Spirit’s action.
Incarnation is sublime model of inculturation.
In any attempt of inculturation of the Church, that means "the intimate transformation of authentic cultural values through their integration in Christianity", and at the same time "the insertion of Christianity in the various human cultures," the motivation, the model, the criterion, the content and the purpose must be the Word of God made man, who is himself the subject and object of this Word.
Approximate Word count = 1706
Approximate Pages = 6.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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