Incarnation and Inculturation
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The decree on the mission activity of the Church Ad Gentes of the Council Vatican II describes the encounter of the Word of God with cultures as: "the seed which is the Word of God, watered by divine dew, sprouts from the good ground and draws from thence its moisture, which it transforms and assimilates into itself, and finally bears much fruit." It is inculturation, that "seeks to dispose people to receive Jesus Christ in an integral manner. It touches them on the personal, cultural, economic and political levels so that they can live a holy life in total union with God the Father, through the action of the Holy Spirit." 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. Jesus Christ, the divine Logos made flesh, son of Mary a Nazareth girl, came into the world as a Jew. He is the son of his time, of his people, of the local culture...