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inculturate

inculturate verb: to adapt (Christian teachings) for a non-Christian culture.

Verb

inculturate (third-person singular simple present inculturates, present participle inculturating, simple past and past participle inculturated)

  1. (transitive) To adapt (Christian teachings) for a non-Christian culture.
    • I think that Western culture poses particular problems with regard to inculturation. You do not find theologians demanding that we be inculturated, adopt the norms of our society, and yet that is often what is happening.1999, Timothy Radcliffe, Sing a new song: the Christian vocation, Dominican Publications, →ISBN, page 255

Forms of inculturate

third-person singular presentinculturates
present participleinculturating
past participleinculturated
pastinculturated

Questions about inculturate

What does inculturate mean?
Inculturate means to adapt (Christian teachings) for a non-Christian culture.
What part of speech is inculturate?
Inculturate is a verb.
What is the past tense of inculturate?
The past tense of inculturate is inculturated.

Words near inculturate in the dictionary

  1. inculpations
  2. inculpatory
  3. incult
  4. incultivated
  5. incultivation
  6. inculturate
  7. inculturated
  8. inculturates
  9. inculturating
  10. inculturation
  11. inculturations

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