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LEX PERFECTA PRAECEPTA RECTA "The tree is going down." This figure is an ‘arbitration', more exactly a metaphor. It is from a communication that, in 1929, Pierre Charles, one of the Belgian founders of the Museum Lessianum, makes at a conference on missiology in Austria. The text, as well as a similar one, read in 1930 at another meeting in Ljubljana, is included in the collection of his posthumous Etudes missiologiques (Desclée de Brouwer, 1956). A theologian, Charles argues for an adjusting dynamics of missionary activity. Presumably, according to him, most of the non-western world (China, Japan, India, Africa) would have been, for centuries, spiritually immobile. Things are changing, he affirms. If you are observing a falling tree, make sure to direct its motion then. "Once the giant is on the ground, it becomes cumbersome to move it" (op. cit.: 35). Read the whole text in PDF |