ABSTRACT
That this policy was pursued vehemently and comprehensively was bad enough; that it was marked by a failure to appreciate how Christianity was to be expressed relevantly and sensitively in an ancient Asian culture was worse. The learning of centuries of experience were disregarded and jettisoned, along with what were seen to be 'fatal compromises'. In contrast European Christians, if conscious at all of their accommodations with Graeco-Roman culture, regarded such accommodations as 'desirable', if not 'God-Given'. Or as the Holy Office put it when condemning Galileo in AD 1633, he and his followers had erred in that they had trodden
It was not to be expected that Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist or Confucian philosophies could in any way be constructive means for expressing Christianity.
