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OUR MISSION AND CULTURE  \n75 1. General Congregation 34 has brought together Jesuits from the cultures of Asia, the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe, the European Community, Africa, North America, Australia and Latin America; this composition has heightened our awareness of the diversity of cultures in both the world and the Society, and of the need to address the importance for our mission of the Gospel and culture .1  \n76 2. In recent years, the Church has made this theme one of its central points of reflection. Pope Paul VI wrote that \"the split between the Gospel and culture is without a doubt the tragedy of our time . \"2 More recently, Pope John Paul II has presented inculturation as one of the fundamental aspects of the Church's total evangelizing mission and points to the mutuality between the Gospel and the cultures it engages . The Christian message is to be open to all cultures, bound to no single culture and made accessible to every human person through a process of inculturation, by which the Gospel introduces something new into the culture and the culture brings something new to the richness of the Gospel:  \n\"Through inculturation the Church makes the Gospel incarnate in different cultures and at the same time introduces people, together with their cultures, into her own community. She transmits to them her own values, at the same time taking the good elements that already exist in them and renewing them from within. \"3  \n77 3. The process of inculturating the Gospel of Jesus Christ within human culture is a form of incarnation of the Word of God in all the diversity of human experience, in which the Word of God comes to take up a dwelling place in the human family (Cf . Jn 1:14) . When the Word of God becomes embedded in the heart of a culture, it is like a buried seed which draws its nourishment from the earth around it and grows to maturity. Inculturation can also be related to the Paschal Mystery: cultures, under the impact of the liberating power of the Gospel, rid themselves of their negative features and enter the freedom of God's Kingdom . The Gospel brings a prophetic challenge to every culture to remove all those things which  \n1 \"Culture\" means the way in which a group of people live, think, feel, organize themselves, celebrate and share life. In every culture, there are underlying systems of values, meanings and views of the world, which are expressed, visibly, in language, gestures, symbols, rituals and styles .  \n2 Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi , n. 20.  \n3 John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Missio , n. 52.  \ninhibit the justice of the Kingdom . Inculturating the Gospel means allowing the Word of God to exercise a power within the lives of the people, without imposing, at the same time, alien cultural factors which would make it difficult for them truly to receive that Word . \"Evangelization is not possible without inculturation. Inculturation is the existential dialogue between a living people and the living Gospel . \"4  \n78 4. This process has always been a part of the life of the Church: in the early Christian centuries the Church, while proclaiming its faith in ways that a Hellenistic culture could receive, was at the same time shaped by that culture . Insights which first originated outside the Jewish and Christian context came to find a place within the very heart of Christianity . A similar process is going on today in many parts of the world, as representatives of indigenous cultures, the great religious traditions and critical modernity bring insights which the Church must consider as part of the dialogue between Christian experience and the diversity of other experiences. In this way, the Church is recovering, in our times, the creativity shown in the early centuries and in the best of its evangelizing work .  \n79 5. Particular challenges must be faced today in order to enable an existential dialogue of this kind to take place with the range of c","cbCaiaxpdfKXx2qe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaxpdfKXx2qe","pdf",36044,11,"English","# OUR MISSION AND CULTURE\n## 1. General Congregation\n## 2. Central point of reflection\n## 3. 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