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Lesson 13

Missions to the East

The acceleration of missionary work in the East gave rise to questions regarding the practice of inculturation in evangelization.

Lesson Vocabulary

  • Buddhism
    :
    (n.): Eastern religion which does not expose belief in eternal life with a personal God in Heaven, but rather holds the purpose of our lives is liberation from suffering caused by selfish desires. Founded by Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhism is an outgrowth of Hinduism.
  • Zoroastrianism
    :
    (n.): An ancient non-Abrahamic monotheistic religion that may have been founded by Zoroaster in 6th century BC Persia, though many scholars believe it to be up to 1400 years older.
  • Cathay
    :
    (n.): European name for the Empire of China.
  • Seclusion Laws
    :
    (n.): Japanese Laws that prohibited foreigners from entering Japan, and Japanese people from leaving the country, which were in force from about 1639-1853. The Seclusion Laws effectively ended the presence of Catholic missionaries and their ability to operate in Japan. Also known as Sakoku.
  • Kakure Kirishtan
    :
    (n.): Japanese for “Hidden Christians,” those Japanese citizens who practiced their faith in secret through more than 200 years of the bloodiest persecutions in modern history.
  • Inculturation
    :
    (n.): The process of adapting the customs of non-Christian peoples to the Catholic Faith, in witness to the inverse nature of the Church.
  • Ex Quo Singulari
    :
    (n): Pope Benedict XIV's 1742 papal bull which banned Chinese veneration of ancestors and prohibited other accommodations made in the Chinese rites. As Confucianism began to be seen as more of a philosophy than a religion, later Popes permitted Chinese to participate in ceremonies honoring their ancestors.
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