Abstract—Giving importance to indigenous categories is
becoming more and more a must for Filipino theological
articulators. It is through the utilization of indigenous
categories that we could shape and develop the emerging
Filipino consciousness and to express the gospel within the
context of the people’s own culture to effectively bring across it
and identify it with the culture of the people; more so, for
Christianity to become a folk Christianity, that is, Christianity
expressed in the indigenous cultural way. However, there is a
need to examine and analyze the methodology used by our
Filipino theologians in articulating faith in the indigenous
categories so as to determine the difficulty that confronts the
process of inculturation.
Index Terms—Culture, cultural exegesis, inculturation,
indigenous categories.
Michael M. Ramos is with the Faculty of Religious Studies and
Philosophy Area, De La Salle College – Lipa, Philippines (e-mail:
mykramos1517@gmail.com).
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Cite: Michael M. Ramos, " Inculturating Theology in the Indigenous Categories:
The Quest for Filipino Cultural Identity," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 695-700, 2015.