Dialogue with Culture Flashcards
____ refers to when one’s culture is seen as the center of the world, the norm for all cultures
Ethnocentrism
____ 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
Cultural Relativism
It is judging another culture based upon the values and standards set in one’s culture
Ethnocentrism
True or False
Dialogue may lead us in building connectivity and relationship with people of different religions, culture and socio-economic status.
True
According to Fr. Edgar Javier, it is understood as conversation between two persons with different ways of life
Dialogue
The primary purpose of Dialogue is Primary Purpose: for each participant to ________ from the other so that each can ________ and __________
- Learn
- Change & Grow
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.”
Pope John Paul II
(Ecclesiam Suam, 72)
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.
Dialogue
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 ____
spirit of dialogue
True or False
Dialogue is recognized as part of the comprehensive evangelizing mission of the Church.
True
Dialogue is characterized by ____ and ____ between dialogue partners who are different from each other
reciprocity & mutuality
In the praxis of mission in the contemporary times, ____ and ____ are the desired dispositions.
openness & respect
Dialogue may lead us towards achieving ____
harmony
In Asia mission and evangelization has to be through the____, that is, dialogue with culture, religion, and the poor. (FAPA 222)
triple dialogue
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.”
Fr. Samuel Agcarcar
What is the Latin verb for inhabit, cultivate, protect, honor with worship?
colore
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.
Fr. Louis Luzbetak
Who said this:
Enculturation is a very long process of growing into the culture to which he or she belongs.
Nicolas Standaert
The process by which culture is passed
on and is learned is called ____
enculturation
Beliefs, experiences, principles, values and memories are shared as a result of common ________
enculturation
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.
conscious and unconscious
According to Harris, ____ is primarily based on the control that the older generation exercises over the means of rewarding and punishing children.
Enculturation
According to Standaert, culture can be discerned in various levels namely: (4)
- Action
- Symbol
- Always Changing
- Subcultures
According to Standaert, culture can be discerned through ____, such as clothing, or means of transport
action
According to Standaert, culture can be discerned through, ____ such as their myth, rites of passage at birth, puberty, marriage, birth, greeting each other.
symbol
Part of symbol (level of culture) is ____ which is elementary to culture that when another language is present, another culture is present
language
According to Standaert, the The last characteristic is that within a culture there can be several _________
subcultures
The Gospel must be ____ in the people and that Christ must find a home in the culture of the people.
inculturated
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
mirrors
The theological foundation of inculturation is the ____
incarnation
____ 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.
Inculturation
____ is the discovery of the seeds of the Word which lie hidden in the given cultures and living traditions
Inculturation
The Gospel has to ____ a culture while culture has to ____ the Gospel
purify ; enrich
There must be a ____ between the Gospel and culture between faith and culture.
2 words
mutual enrichment
The goal of cultures is for ____ and ____ flourishing
Human and world flourishing
True or False
Culture do not only could cultivate but also can mediate the Christian faith to others
True
True or False
Culture also includes religion as one of its elements
True
____ is the animating principle of culture
Religion
Culture is like a ____, with religion as its ____
Culture: body
Religion: soul
The work of ____ carried out by the church is a continuation of the incarnation
evangelization
True or False
Christianity must assume whatever is good in the different races and cultures is compatible with the essential message of the gospel
True
True or False
The incarnation tells us that God is not afraid of using cultures to communicate with us
True
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”
Lao Tzu
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.”
Pope Paul VI - Evangelii Nunciandi, 63
Successful inculturation demands from those involved in the process mature freedom in the Spirit which is characterized by ____ and ____ in His guidance
docility & trust
The Christian doctrine of creation maintains two truths namely:
- Creation originates from God
- Creation is nevertheless other than God
Borders are generally regarded as ____
seedbeds of impurity
It is in the ____ that we can have dialogue with different cultures.
diversity
The multiculturality of the world because of migration can be an avenue for greater space for evangelization “a ________ of the new evangelization.”
privileged locus
The following are what of inculturation:
- 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
- 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.
basic and fundamental process of inculturation
____ is a term used to describe how trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place
Globalization
it also contributed to the exchange of cultural values of different countries
____ is a process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures become increasingly integrated
Globalization
defined by H.E. Baber
____ may lead us in building connectivity and relationshop with people of different religions, cultures, and socio-economic status
Dialogue
The triple dialogue which is employed in Asia’s mission and evangelization is composed of dialogue with? (3)
Dialogue with:
- Culture
- Religion
- Poor
____ 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.”
Culture
____ is primarily based on the control that the older generation exercises over the rewarding and punishing children
Enculturation
