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Creative Inculturation and the Unity of Faith
註釋The present volume present three studies which were read and discussed during the Jerusalem seminar of FIUC in 1985. The first study, by Paul Surlis, is about the relation between social justice and inculturation in the Papal Magisterium. The second one, entitled Accommodating Culture Without Dissolving the Unity of the Faith, was presented by Thomas Langan; the third contribution on Catholicism in the United States: Some Elements of Creative inculturation was given by Rodger Van Allen. By way of introduction, a brief study by the Editor, Arij A. Roest Crollius, S. J., has been added which is an effort to formulate the problem of doctrinal unity within a pluricultural church. Paul Surlis, Associate Professor of Moral Theology and Social Ethics at St. John's University, New York, since 1975. Contributed to Morals, Law and Authority. Edited Faith: Its Nature and meaning. Awarded Von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship and studied at University of Munster 1970-71. Was Peritus at concluding session of Second Vatican Council, 1965 with Bishop T. J. Drury of Corpus Christi, Texas. Thomas Langan is Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada, former president, American catholic Philosophical Association, and The Metaphysical Society of America, and a member of the editorial board of Communio, North America. He is author or co-author of six books in the area of modern and recent philosophy, and of fifty articles. He has been active in development work in Columbia and Niger. Rodger Van Allen is Professor of Religious Studies at Villanova University, Villanova Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He wrote The Commonwealth and American Catholicism, and edited American religious Values and the Future of America. He was founding Co-Editor of horizons, and served as president of the College of Theology Society 1982-1984.