impacting and uniting the entire church globally, you cannot separate the influence of Christianity the movie The Mission? I always say that there
and that person is you. What say you? How on the west. To do it would basically go back are two philosophies of evangelization in that
would you explain this? to what it was before, which was essentially movie. One is in the Spanish mercenaries, who
just tribalism, and all sorts of different pagan represent the interest of the monarchy, and the
[Matt] (laughing) That’s a mouthful! I think spiritualities. I’m digressing, but what I’m saying other is in the Jesuit missionaries. One says,
there is a lot that I want to comment on in is that, if the Gospel transcends culture, and “These people are savages and we’re here to
this context. The second Vatican counsel was although Latin has been the preferred language tame them.” And the other says, “These people
primarily about understanding the essential of Western culture, by the time there was the are made in the likeness of God, and Christ is
reality that Christianity is a global movement, 2nd Vatican Counsel, it was essentially a dead already here, we just want to come and help
and because it is a global movement it cannot language. It’s not a universal tongue anymore. point out where He is.”
tradition of Western Europe. Christ is not But at the time when Christianity was legalized So, all of that to say, I think the second Vatican
Western European. Jesus on his human side and then codified and then spread as the counsel was about helping Catholicism get
was Middle Eastern. He was Jewish. But the official state-sponsored religion of the Roman back to the roots of the word ‘universal’,
Gospel transcends all cultures, and I think that Empire, Latin was the primary language, so it which is what the word “Catholic” means.
the founders and framers of that saw that, and made sense. But the church in the sixties said, I think the way they predominately did that
they saw that Christianity in some way had “There are all of these cultures and dialects wasn’t through music, it was through the
become intrinsically linked… Because, in some around the world, and we believe Christianity vernacular of the language. With it came this
ways, it did foster and built Western thinking. transcends and has something valuable to say idea of enculturation, which is that God loves
Western thinking in some ways is Christian, in to all of these cultures.” all culture. But Christ, being the fulfillment of all
be confined to the culture and history and
its purest form. Lots of people would disagree
with me on that, and it’s totally fine, but I think
human desire and the fulfillment of every human
It’s sort of this idea… Have you ever watched
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