THE CHARISM OF TEACHING AND THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN EVANGELIZATION, MISSION AND CULTURE (PAULINE PERSPECTIVES)

Abstract

Facilitating the dialogue between evangelization, mission and culture ought to be one of the primary objectives of any inculturation attempt. For faith to be genuinely and effectively inculturated many indices would come into play. This study from a Pauline Perspective proposes the charism of didaskalia (teaching), a very important Pauline charism for the modern-day Church, a charism that has been somewhat neglected as one of the gifts crucial in facilitating the ongoing inculturation dialogue. True missionaries and evangelizers on the African soil should be apt to teach. When these are true teachers, they will be able to efficiently engage their host cultures in a bit to evangelize them following the Pauline model. Such a proposition while not claiming to be an auto-sufficient response to the needs of mission and evangelization in its dialogue with culture aims to be an ongoing discussion.