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Document Details : Title: Good News for Every Nation via Inculturation Author(s): HILLMAN, Eugene Journal: Louvain Studies Volume: 25 Issue: 4 Date: winter 2000 Pages: 336-347 DOI: 10.2143/LS.25.4.900 Abstract : The nations (gentes) to whom the Christian community is divinely sent, and among whom it is supposed to become incarnate through faithfulness to the missionary principle of inculturation, are not the world's politically constructed nation-states as such. They are, rather, the multitude of indigenous ethno-cultural nations, sometimes still called 'tribes,' enclosed within the boundaries of politically constructed nation-states. This view of missionary activity has far-reaching social, cultural, ethical, theological and ecclesial implications. |
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