Accommodation (religion)

(Divine) Accommodation (or condescension) is the theological principle that God, while being in his nature unknowable and unreachable, has nevertheless communicated with humanity in a way that humans can understand and to which they can respond, pre-eminently by the incarnation of Christ and similarly, for example, in the Bible.

Benin describes accommodation as the view that 'divine revelation is adjusted to the disparate intellectual and spiritual level of humanity at different times in history' including language, culture, individual capacity, and human sinfulness.

Another usage uses 'accommodation' as the appropriation of words or sentences from, especially, the Bible to signify ideas different from those that were originally expressed in the text.