It took centuries for the West to work out key christological issues. It may well take decades and perhaps many heresies for the African and Asian Churches to discover who Christ is in their context. Sadly, I find not the slightest indication in Dominus Iesus that inculturation is any more than a literal translation of the CDF s version of the Graeco-Latin tradition. This is cultural arrogance. The challenge is to experience and express the Truth in more than one language, more than one culture, to allow Truth to shine forth without insisting upon a narrow cultural hegemony.
Dialogue seems to be a subsidiary activity.
Seeing that only we have the whole truth, the one revelation and the single volume of inspired Scriptures and that our doctrine must not be influenced let alone developed through the experience of dialogue, what remains of dialogue is pure tactic. Apparently, we dialogue in order that others come to understand and if possible accept the Truth as we know it. An alternative starting point would be a theology of dialogue. Dialogue is an essential characteristic of our living and proclaiming. In Asia dialogue is not one activity among many, it is an essential dimension and core characteristic of the whole of our life and doctrine.