On the one hand the Gospel message cannot be purely and simply isolated from
the culture in which it was first inserted (the biblical world or, more
concretely, the cultural milieu in which Jesus of Nazareth lived), nor, without
serious loss, from the cultures in which it has already been expressed down the
centuries; it does not spring spontaneously from any cultural soil; it has
always been transmitted by means of an apostolic dialogue which inevitably
becomes part of a certain dialogue of cultures.
--John Paul II
Catechesi Tradendae
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