{"id":785,"date":"2012-12-03T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/summathissummathat\/?p=785"},"modified":"2017-03-17T15:08:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:08:45","slug":"a-lifelong-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/summathissummathat\/2012\/12\/a-lifelong-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lifelong Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Below, a series of quotes that have been rattling around in my head all weekend:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026the Kingdom which the Gospel proclaims is lived by men and women who are profoundly linked to a culture, and the building up of the Kingdom cannot avoid borrowing the elements of human culture or cultures. \u2018A faith that places itself on the margin of what is human, of what is therefore culture, would be a faith unfaithful to the fullness of what the Word of God manifests and reveals, a decapitated faith, worse still, a faith in the process of self-annihilation.'\u201d \u2014 John Paul II in Ex Corde Ecclesiae<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re only making stuff that Catholics and Christians will watch, then we\u2019re not going to impact the culture. That\u2019s just preaching to the choir. Now there\u2019s definitely a place for preaching to the choir, and goodness knows the choir needs preaching. But that\u2019s not the way we\u2019ll change culture. \u201d \u2014 Dominic Iocco<\/a>, Dean of the School of Business & Media at John Paul the Great University, during our recent conversation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs Blessed John Paul II\u2019s personalist ethics stressed: It is never legitimate to use a human being in any way for any purpose. \u2026Art will always need the seven deadly sins. Sin is the essence of the human problem with which so much art is wrestling. The challenge is to represent sin in a way that isn\u2019t an occasion of sin.\u201d \u2014 Our own Barbara Nicolosi<\/a>, quoted by Daniel McInerny in \u201cWhat are the limits to depictions of sin in the arts?\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There, in a couple of nutshells, the problem that so many of us must grapple with on a daily basis. We are clearly (and rightly, I believe) called to engage our modern culture and its purveyors. Yet at the same time, it is a culture more wholeheartedly devoted to assimilation than anything this side of the Cybermen<\/a>. \u201cIn, but not Of\u201d has never been more important.<\/p>\n

Or more difficult to recognize.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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