The challenge of sifting legitimate cultural expressions from illegitimate goes back at least to Gregory’s letters to Augustine of Canterbury. The devil is in the details, but at a high level of generality, we can say this: Every culture will have to abandon some of its most cherished ways in order to follow Jesus; but at the same time, conversion should be presented and experienced not primarily as renunciation but as fulfillment. Christian Koreans don’t cease to be Korean, but, united to the Last Adam, they become the Koreans God created them to be.
Source: Peter Leithart - First Things, "Unity and Uniformity", 27 Oct 2016, https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2016/10/unity-and-uniformity
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