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Duties of catechesis for inculturation of
the faith
(114)
203. These duties form an
organic whole and are briefly expressed as follows:
– to know in depth the culture of persons and
the extent of its penetration into their lives;
– to recognize a cultural dimension in the
Gospel itself, while affirming, on the one hand, that this does not spring from
some human cultural humus, and recognizing, on the other, that the
Gospel cannot be isolated from the cultures in which it was initially inserted
and in which it has found expression through the centuries;
– to proclaim the profound change, the
conversion, which the Gospel, as a "transforming and regenerating"
(115) force works in culture;
– to witness to the transcendence and the
non-exhaustion of the Gospel with regard to culture, while at the same time
discerning those seeds of the Gospel which may be present in culture;
– to promote a new expression of the Gospel
in accordance with evangelized culture, looking to a language of the faith
which is the common patrimony of the faithful and thus a fundamental element of
communion;
– To maintain integrally the content of the
faith and esure that the doctrinal formulations of tradition are explained and
illustrated, while taking into account the cultural and historical circumstaces
of those being instructed, and to avoid defacing or falsifying the contents.
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