Original sentence: Despite regular attempts to bring him back into regular Jesuit community life, his superiors ultimately consented to let him adopt a lifestyle more conducive to his creative writing.Ever critical of systems, structures and institutions, Kappen felt his search was leading him beyond denominational and religious affiliations as well as political ideology.He also drew on Indian traditions, particularly that of religious dissent represented by the Buddha and the medieval Bhakti Movement.He wrote and lectured extensively on the cultural restructuring of Indian society.His locus theologicus was the people, and particularly the poor.In Kappen's view, No political, religious or economic system was absolute, but were all to be valued only insofar as they serve the people.Kappen was censured for the publication.This led him to a study of the liberating and humanizing potential of the original teachings of Jesus, with a strong preference for the Gospel of Mark.This stance in particular brought him into conflict with Rome.Thus, he felt that party and their ideologies, even of religious ones, could act as spiritual prisons, which he did not want to be confined in, while Jesus offered freedom
Edited sentence: As could be expected the stand he took for more responsible freedom and less institutional conventionality in Church and society brought him in conflict with the catholic hierarchy.Ever critical of systems, structures and institutions, Kappen’s search was leading him beyond denominational and religious affiliations or political ideology.He has written and lectured extensively on the cultural restructuring of Indian society.He was not to be prisoner of a party and its ideology, not even of a religious one.His locus theologicus had necessarily to be the people, and particularly the poor.His yardstick was the freedom of the living God of Jesus; that was also his faith and spirituality.No further action was taken by Church authorities on this matter.No political, religious or economic system was absolute: they are all to be valued in the measure they serve the people.This led him to an investigation into the liberative and humanizing potential of the original teachings of the historical Jesus (hence his preference for the Gospel of Mark) as well as of Indian traditions, particularly the tradition of religious dissent represented by the Buddha and the medieval Bhakti Movement.Though attempting regularly to bring him back to regular Jesuit community life, his superiors were understanding enough to let him adopt a life-style more conducive to his creative writing