Christian Education and Culture
the Tradition and the life of the Gospel to the people that choose to live by it. For countries with long Christian Tradition, Christian culture has become integral part of the people's expression, the ethos of the nation.
Christian culture is an expression of the Gospel and of Christian faith in intellectual thought, in its artistic manifestation (poetry, art, music), in the social organization (ethics, morals), and in the historical vision (political organization, kind of state).
The Church is the living guardian of living Christian Tradition. The Church, having an obligation towards the Early Church, gives to its members the treasures of the Kingdom of Heaven. The Church should reach its members through education in her midst as well as through the public educational institutions. All knowledge comes from God, and knowledge of Him is the most important. The Church, the body of believers, should become the foundation for the fundamental problems of ethical and human culture. This synergy is necessary not only to make critics and judgments common of ancient Christian culture, but also to open new horizons for this culture. The starting point is this one: the Christian reference of society in general is very weak and far away, and the language and religious symbols are erased or even unknown. Among those that have declared themselves Christian believers, most of them conceive the faith as fidelity towards some traditions and rituals, which were transmitted from the past by the bias of the Church.
By Christian culture we understand the expression of the Gospel and of the Christian thought in the intellectual thought (theology, philosophy), in artistic manifestation (poetry, art, music), in social organization (ethics, moods), in historical vision (political regime, form of state). Christian culture is all that gives identity to a human community, through fidelity towards the origins and openness to the future. She is the product of the meeting, critical and prophetic, between the Gospel, that is transmitted (herself result of the confluence between the revealed message and the culture of time, inherited mostly form biblical sources), and the forms of expression of society, forms nourished by diverse forces. She takes the form a spiritual patrimony, metaphoric and historic in the same time, around which are defined the identity and continuity of a family, a person, a community, and a nation.
Christian culture is not a goal in itself. Is the work of all the Christians, but
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