The book is structures around a short incisive introduction, Part 1, to acquaint students with the broad implications of the question, "How has the church wrestled with the problem of cultures in its 2,000-year history?" That is followed by a longer Part 2 which contains both longer and shorter clssical texts illustrating the ways in which bishops, popes, and other c hurch leaders construed the issues in every important cross-cultural encounter of...