In Truth And Tolerance: Christian Belief And World Religions Cardinal Ratzinger advanced a proposal that was rather innovative with respect to the theological hypotheses most widespread today: to abandon the idea of the inculturation of a faith that is culturally neutral in itself, which would be transplanted into different cultures regardless of their religions, and have recourse instead to the encounter of cultures (or â??interculturalityâ??), based upon two strong points.
On the one hand, the encounter of cultures is possible and is constantly taking place because, in spite of all of their differences, the men that produce them share the same nature and the same openness of reason to the truth.
On the other hand, the Christian faith, which was born from the revelation of the truth itself, produces what we might call the â??culture of faith,â?? the characteristic of which is that it does not belong to a single specific people, but can subsist in any people or cultural subject, entering into relation with the individual culture and encountering and co-penetrating it. This is concretely the unity, and also the cultural multiplicity and universality, of Christianity.
Cardinal Camillo Ruini Theology and culture: Borderlands
