Dialogue with Culture

Question 1

____ refers to when one’s culture is seen as the center of the world, the norm for all cultures

Answer 1

Ethnocentrism

Question 2

____ refers to a person’s beliefs and activities should be understood and make sense in terms of his or her own culture and not from the outsider’s view

Answer 2

Cultural Relativism

Question 3

It is judging another culture based upon the values and standards set in one’s culture

Answer 3

Ethnocentrism

Question 4

True or False

Dialogue may lead us in building connectivity and relationship with people of different religions, culture and socio-economic status.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

According to Fr. Edgar Javier, it is understood as conversation between two persons with different ways of life

Answer 5

Dialogue

Question 6

The primary purpose of Dialogue is Primary Purpose: for each participant to ________ from the other so that each can ________ and __________

Answer 6

• Learn
• Change & Grow

Question 7

Who said this:

“The dialogue of salvation was opened spontaneously on the initiative of God: “He (God) loved us first;” it will be up to us to take the initiative in extending to men this same dialogue, without waiting to be summoned to it.”

Answer 7

Pope John Paul II
(Ecclesiam Suam, 72)

Question 8

According to the Catholic Church’s document on “Dialogue and Proclamation”, it is the reciprocal communication, leading to a common goal or, at a deeper level, to interpersonal communion.

Answer 8

Dialogue

Question 9

According to the Catholic Church’s document on “Dialogue and Proclamation”, dialogue can be taken as an attitude of respect and friendship, which permeates or should permeate all those activities constituting the evangelizing mission of the Church, which can be called ____

Answer 9

spirit of dialogue

Question 10

True or False

Dialogue is recognized as part of the comprehensive evangelizing mission of the Church.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Dialogue is characterized by ____ and ____ between dialogue partners who are different from each other

Answer 11

reciprocity & mutuality

Question 12

In the praxis of mission in the contemporary times, ____ and ____ are the desired dispositions.

Answer 12

openness & respect

Question 13

Dialogue may lead us towards achieving ____

Answer 13

harmony

Question 14

In Asia mission and evangelization has to be through the____, that is, dialogue with culture, religion, and the poor. (FAPA 222)

Answer 14

triple dialogue

Question 15

Who said this:
“Our sense of identity in Christ, when fully lived by us who are called Christians - not only by name but our very life - can become a powerful means to dispel the power of unbelief and indifference that pervade the world.”

Answer 15

Fr. Samuel Agcarcar

Question 16

What is the Latin verb for inhabit, cultivate, protect, honor with worship?

Answer 16

colore

Question 17

Who said this:

“Culture is conceived as the way of life of a social group, not of an individual as such. It is the way a society copes with its physical, social, and ideational environment. In other words, culture is a society’s regularized or standardized design for living.

Answer 17

Fr. Louis Luzbetak

Question 18

Who said this:

Enculturation is a very long process of growing into the culture to which he or she belongs.

Answer 18

Nicolas Standaert

Question 19

The process by which culture is passed
on and is learned is called ____

Answer 19

enculturation

Question 20

Beliefs, experiences, principles, values and memories are shared as a result of common ________

Answer 20

enculturation

Question 21

According to Harris, culture is a partially ________ and partially ________ learning experience whereby the older generation invited, induces, and compels the younger generation to adopt traditional ways of thinking and behaving.

Answer 21

conscious and unconscious

Question 22

According to Harris, ____ is primarily based on the control that the older generation exercises over the means of rewarding and punishing children.

Answer 22

Enculturation

Question 23

According to Standaert, culture can be discerned in various levels namely: (4)

Answer 23

1. Action
2. Symbol
3. Always Changing
4. Subcultures

Question 24

According to Standaert, culture can be discerned through ____, such as clothing, or means of transport

Answer 24

action

Question 25

According to Standaert, culture can be discerned through, ____ such as their myth, rites of passage at birth, puberty, marriage, birth, greeting each other.

Answer 25

symbol

Question 26

Part of symbol (level of culture) is ____ which is elementary to culture that **when another language is present, another culture is present**

Answer 26

language

Question 27

According to Standaert, the The last characteristic is that within a culture there can be several _________

Answer 27

subcultures

Question 28

The **Gospel** must be ____ in the people and that Christ must find a home in the culture of the people.

Answer 28

inculturated

Question 29

If **culture** is a way of life one has to be **slow in one’s judgment** because culture ____ the **behaviour** and **belief system** of a group of peoples or community

Answer 29

mirrors

Question 30

The theological foundation of inculturation is the ____

Answer 30

incarnation

Question 31

____ is not mere adaptation of a ready-made Christianity into a given situation, but rather a **creative embodiment** of the Word in the local church.

Answer 31

Inculturation

Question 32

____ is the **discovery of the seeds of the Word** which lie hidden in the given cultures and living traditions

Answer 32

Inculturation

Question 33

The **Gospel** has to ____ a **culture** while **culture** has to ____ the **Gospel**

Answer 33

purify ; enrich

Question 34

There must be a ____ between the **Gospel** and **culture** between **faith** and **culture**. | 2 words

Answer 34

mutual enrichment

Question 35

The goal of cultures is for ____ and ____ flourishing

Answer 35

Human and world flourishing

Question 36

# True or False Culture do not only could cultivate but also can mediate the Christian faith to others

Answer 36

True

Question 37

# True or False Culture also includes **religion** as one of its elements

Answer 37

True

Question 38

____ is the **animating principle of culture**

Answer 38

Religion

Question 39

Culture is like a ____, with religion as its ____

Answer 39

Culture: body Religion: soul

Question 40

The work of ____ carried out by the church is a **continuation of the incarnation**

Answer 40

evangelization

Question 41

# True or False Christianity must assume whatever is good in the different races and cultures is compatible with the essential message of the gospel

Answer 41

True

Question 42

# True or False The **incarnation** tells us that God is not afraid of **using cultures** to **communicate with us**

Answer 42

True

Question 43

# Who said this: "Go to the people, **Live** among them, **Learn** from them, **love** them. Start with what they know, build on what they have"

Answer 43

Lao Tzu

Question 44

# Who said this: “Evangelization loses much of its force and effectiveness if it does not take into consideration the actual people to whom it is addressed, if it does not use their language, their signs and symbols, if it does not answer the questions they ask, and if it does not have an impact on their concrete life.”

Answer 44

Pope Paul VI - *Evangelii Nunciandi, 63*

Question 45

Successful inculturation demands from those involved in the process mature freedom in the Spirit which is characterized by ____ and ____ in His guidance

Answer 45

docility & trust

Question 46

The Christian doctrine of creation maintains two truths namely:

Answer 46

1. Creation originates from God 2. Creation is nevertheless other than God

Question 47

Borders are generally regarded as ____

Answer 47

seedbeds of impurity

Question 48

It is in the ____ that we can have dialogue with different cultures.

Answer 48

diversity

Question 49

The multiculturality of the world because of migration can be an avenue for greater space for evangelization “a ________ of the new evangelization.”

Answer 49

privileged locus

Question 50

# The following are what of inculturation: 1. The community **discovers a new identity**, losing nothing of its cultural riches, but **integrating** them in a new whole and becoming the **sacrament of God’s liberating love active among men** 2. Inculturation is not mere adaptation of a ready- made Christianity into a given situation, but rather a **creative embodiment** of the Word in the local church.

Answer 50

basic and fundamental process of inculturation

Question 51

____ is a term used to describe how trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place

Answer 51

Globalization ## Footnote it also contributed to the exchange of cultural values of different countries

Question 52

____ is a process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures become increasingly integrated

Answer 52

Globalization | defined by *H.E. Baber*

Question 53

____ may lead us in building connectivity and relationshop with people of different religions, cultures, and socio-economic status

Answer 53

Dialogue

Question 54

The triple dialogue which is employed in Asia's mission and evangelization is composed of dialogue with? (3)

Answer 54

Dialogue with: - Culture - Religion - Poor

Question 55

____ is a "partially conscious and unconscious learning experience whereby the older generation invited, induces, and compels the younger generation to adopt ways of thinking and behaving."

Answer 55

Culture

Question 56

____ is primarily based on the control that the older generation exercises over the rewarding and punishing children

Answer 56

Enculturation