本文討論沈清松教授對天主教思想本位化，尤其中華新士林哲學與神學本地化方面的貢獻。文章內容有追述與懇談兩部分：前部分集中在天主教思想本位化與中華新士林哲學；後部分集中在教會本位化與神學本位化的問題。 本論文寫作動機為了引起更多天主教學術界人士對沈清松教授思想的注意，沈教授剛去世一年，加上筆者才疏學淺，思想有不周全與不成熟的地方。懇談重點，除了沈教授「外推」理論與天主教現代性問題的探討，特別著重「外推」與空、有之論的關係，以筆者過去發表有關「回推」的論述為參考。

This article is about Professor Shen’s contribution to the inculturation of Catholic thoughts, especially to Chinese neo-scholastic philosophy and the localization of theology. Divided into review and discussion, the former part of the article focuses on Chinese Neo-Scholasticism and the inculturation of Catholic thoughts, while the latter part is about the inculturation of the church and theology. This article is written to raise Catholic scholars’ attention to Professor Shen’s thoughts. Since Professor Shen passed away merely a year ago, and the writer has still more to learn, this article is not so comprehensive and mature. In the part of “discussion”, we inquire on Professor Shen’s theory of strangification and the modernity of Catholics with special attention to the relationship between strangification and the theory of nothingness and being with references to the writer’s discourses on “reversion”.