Kościół a kultura w pierwszych wiekach chrześcijaństwa

Abstract

The problems considered in the present article go back to the roots of Christianity and to fitting the Gospel into the existing cultures: Jewish, Hellenic, Roman and Syrian ones, which was being done by the Church and had important consequences. The process, that was called inculturation, was connected with the kenosis of the Gospel, but it was necessary then and it has always been necessary for the Church to function at the proper level and to develop, while having a creative dialogue with people who are yet not faithful. The article presents various antagonistic positions taken by Christian thinkers in the first five centuries, affirming or rejecting the work of particular cultures and the favourable consequence – humanizing the culture – resulting from that clash of views.