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The split between the Gospel and culture is without doubt the drama of our time," wrote Paul VI in 1975. Since that time there has been an increasingly urgent awareness that inculturation is an indispensable task of the church. But inculturation, the dialogue between church and cultures, demands first of al that we who would enter into the dialogue understand what "culture" itself means and what dialogue entails. To that end, cultural anthropologist Father Gerald Arbuckle gives us this important volume.
He traces the history of the development of the concept of culture, and the too-often negative, rarely positive effects of encounters between church and culture. He explores how Jesus Christ approached the cultures of his time, and outlines the current treatment of culture and inculturation in church documents and in Catholic theology. He shows that modest progress in understanding has recently staled, and there are even forces working to turn that progress into regress. He concludes with a description of inculturation as it needs to happen 'and a sharp critique of those who resist. With a sense of prophetic hope, Arbuckle seeks to help us bridge the lamentable split between Gospel and culture, the drama that continues to unfold in our time.Gerald A. Arbuckle, SM, PhD, is codirector of Refounding and Pastoral Development, a research ministry, in Sydney, Australia. He is internationally known for his expertise in helping church leaders minister effectively in a postmodern world. Arbuckle's most recent books include: Laughing with God: Humor, Culture, and Transformation; Confronting the Demon: A Gospel Response to Adult Bullying; Violence, Society, and the Church: A Cultural Approach; and Healthcare Ministry: Refounding the Mission in Tumultuous Times (2001 Catholic Press Association Award), al published by Liturgical Press.
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- Published on: 2010-09-01
- Original language: English
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- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
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Inculturation, the dialogue between church and cultures, demands first of all that we who would enter into the dialogue understand what ‘culture’ itself means and what dialogue entails. To that end, cultural anthropologist Father Gerald Arbuckle gives us this important volume. . . . With a sense of prophetic hope, Arbuckle seeks to help us bridge the lamentable split between Gospel and culture, the drama that continues to unfold in our time.Comboniane.org, website of the Comboni Missionary Sisters
The question that underlies everything in this superb book, accordingly, is: What use can churches make of the welter of conflicting anthropological insights? And beneath that: What is the Gospel? . . . . In Arbuckle’s view, the church’s role is one of helping human beings embrace the paschal mystery of death and life as Christ did, not to struggle to restore or create an imaginary, pristine Eden. God’s call is into an increasing intercultural drama and being light in darkness.International Bulletin for Mission Research
Combining his immense learning in anthropology and theology with his deep concern for the Christian faith Arbuckle again puts all of us scholars and church leaders in his debt with this splendid volume. With his characteristically limpid prose and thought-provoking insights our prolific author forces us to rethink entirely the relation between faith and culture in our postmodern age. This is a landmark book and the future of Christianity and Christian mission may well depend on how its proposals are taken seriously and put into practice. Dr. Peter C. Phan The Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought Theology Department, Georgetown University
Only a master could write a book like this. Gerald Arbuckle brings together his vast pastoral experience, expertise as an anthropologist, and theological savvy in a way that is an absolute MUST read for pastors, theologians, and ministerial students. This book could bring efforts of inculturation to a new level.Steve Bevans, SVD Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture Catholic Theological Union, Chicago
Gerald Arbuckle has done theologians a great service by bringing together a comprehensive picture of where the discussion now is on understandings of culture and cultural processes. This will greatly aid the theological task of inculturation that still lies ahead of us as efforts continue to engage theology and cultures in a world church. Robert Schreiter, CPPS Author of Constructing Local Theologies
About the Author
Gerald A. Arbuckle, SM, is codirector of Refounding and Pastoral Development, a research ministry, in Sydney, Australia. He is internationally known for his expertise in helping church leaders minister effectively in a postmodern world. In 2011 he presented the Martin D’Arcy, SJ, Lectures at Oxford University. He is the author of many books, including Violence, Society, and the Church; Laughing with God; and Culture, Inculturation, and Theologians, all from Liturgical Press.
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Arbuckle- a master on culture and change
By Luvtoo Reed
While much of Arbuckle's brilliance is directed toward shedding light on religious and ministerial institutions, his insights offer excellent direction for change management and culture change in business and personal arenas. His work is classic, superb and immensely applicable.
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Cultural Transposition
By Wesley Vander Lugt
What do Christians means when we talk about contextualization and inculturation? What is involved in this process? In this book, Gerald Arbuckle, co-director of Refounding and Pastoral Development in Sydney, Australia, offers some answers to these questions, but first he tackles the notoriously difficult idea of culture. In contrast to classical, modern, and postmodern definitions of culture, Arbuckle defines culture as a pattern of meanings encased in symbols, narrative, and rituals articulating the correct way to think, feel, and act (17). Culture is created and enacted in social dramas in particular places that produce patterns of meaning. What does it mean, then, for Christianity to be performed in different contexts? According to Arbuckle, this is a difficult question that requires "passionate collaborative efforts" and people who "possess boundless faith, imagination and creativity" (137).
In order to discover guidance for inculturation, Arbuckle looks first to the example of Jesus. By examining a variety of texts, he observes that inculturation happens through a process that is personal, collaborative, liberating, inquisitive, dialogical, respectful of diversity, and replete with storytelling (154-64). Above all, inculturation is about listening, being open to a particular context and willing to be transformed. In other words, inculturation happens when the Christian faith is incarnated in a particular culture, not simply when we allow enhance the core of our faith (168). It does not mean mere embellishment, but the transformation of lives and cultures. Arbuckle articulates several foundational truths that guide this process: the Holy Spirit is the source of truth, there are no normative cultures, inculturation involves all of life, inculturation is incarnational, and inculturation happens by the church as a people not an organization (169-71).
Arbuckle then summarizes two typical models for conceiving of inculturation. On the one hand, a translation model identifies a supracultural core of truth that is then translated into another context. On the other hand, an anthropological model identifies no enduring core and lifts all conditions on dialogue in order to discover truth together (174-75). Arbuckle, himself an anthropologist, prefers the latter model, and emphasizes that despite obvious obstacles such a confusion over meaning and desire for control, Christians must embrace syncretism and let go of endless clamoring after a supracultural, "pure Christianity" (184).
Is Arbuckle right? Is cultural syncretism the best way forward in the process of Christian contextualization and inculturation? While I appreciate many of Arbuckle's insights, particularly his emphasis on responsive awareness as the essence of inculturation, I think his model is mistaken and believe that Christians can continue to hold a core gospel or "rule of faith" despite the dynamic and necessary process of inculturation. What might be a better model for this process?
One of the reasons I posted this review on Transpositions is that I think one option for a better model comes from the arts and corresponds to the name of this blog: transpositions. Transpose is a multivalent word, but one primary meaning comes from music and refers to the preservation of the same musical arrangement of melody and harmony in a different key. When applied to the process of inculturation, therefore, transposition refers to performing the same tune in a different cultural key. Kevin Vanhoozer in The Drama of Doctrine suggested "transposition" as an appropriate model for faithful and fitting performance of the gospel drama in new situation (260). When the gospel enters different cultures, we do not compose an original performance, but transpose the gospel into that context (254).
For Vanhoozer, cultural transposition is a matter of finding an expression of Christian belief and behavior that is fitting to both the canon and different cultural contexts. I think cultural transposition is a much more appropriate model than what Arbuckle proposes, but I also think it is a bit more complex than Vanhoozer admits. Rather than a bi-dimension transposition between the canon and culture, I propose that cultural transposition is more multi-dimensional process involving fittingness to the triune God, Scripture, tradition, relationship with Christians and non-Christians, and the created and cultural order of particular locations.
If Christians are to be faithful to our calling to be in the world but not of the world, we must become skillful at transposing Christian belief and behavior into every cultural key.
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Insightful
By John evans
Particularly with the incorporation of the postmodern view and its relationship to culture myth and narrative. Challenging the classical while providing a way forward.
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