What is so new about inculturation?

The present volume is made up of three studies. The first one, by Ary Roest Crollius, S. J., focuses on the anthropological meaning of the word "culture" and various derivative concepts and goes on to show how the notion of inculturation grew from that. The second one, by Théoneste Nkéramihigo critically examines the usage of the word inculturation. He indicates the often overlooked historical fact that Christianity has been incarnated in a Western context and it is in that guise that it has been presented to non-Western peoples. In the third article Ary Roest Crollius shows that cultural reality is built on the active correlation between man and his world, and between man as being-in-the-world and man as being-with-others-in-the-world.