Accommodation and Mission

Accommodation is no longer a method, but a mandate. And the Gospel is placed in a subordinate role to a fallen world.

At what point do we acknowledge that we've accommodated enough to the world? What exactly are we hoping that the fallen world will contribute to the Gospel message? At what point, do we realize that we've stopped evangelizing and are in fact being evangelized by the false gospel of a world at odds with the grace of God?

Certainly, there are fields of knowledge – like certain philosophies that existed in the ancient world – that can assist the Church in understanding the Gospel and certain tenets within the saving message of Jesus Christ. But have we been as diligent and austere as our forebears in discerning what should be baptized and admitted into the intellectual and pastoral treasury of the Church and what should be outright denounced and discarded from it?

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