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Subject(s)

• Judaism—Relations—Catholic Church [Browse]
• Islam—Relations—Catholic Church [Browse]
• Catholic Church—Relations [Browse]
• Catholic Church—Relations—Judaism [Browse]
• Catholic Church—Relations—Islam [Browse]
• Vatican Council (2nd 1962-1965 Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano).—Declaratio de ecclesiae habitudine ad religiones non-Christianas [Browse]

Editor

• Valkenberg, Pim, 1954- [Browse]

Summary note

Nostra Aetate is the shortest of the sixteen documents promulgated by the Second Vatican Council. It is just five sections long. But the impact of those five paragraphs over the last five decades has been extraordinary. Fifty years after the promulgation of Nostra Aetate we must continue to examine closely the Church's relationship to other faiths. The contents of this book originated in a conference at the Catholic University of America in May 2015. The essays and lectures contained within focus on the relationships of the Catholic Church with the other "Abrahamic" faiths, primarily Islam and Judaism. There is some discussion of the Asian religions as well. This volume, in structure, loosely follows the document Nostra Aetate itself. The first part of the book gives a broad view of the document and its importance. The following parts concentrates on the relationships between the Catholic Church and the Asian, Muslim and Jewish religions. The concluding section of the book surveys the reception Nostra Aetate received in various ecclesial and academic contexts. The essays in this volume provide an opportunity to reflect with profound gratitude on the remarkable strides the Church has made in her dialogue with Muslims and Jews in the past fifty years. As we contemplate the fruits this dialogue has borne and consider the future of these conversations, we can say with the Pslamist "How good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!" (Publisher).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

• Editors' Note
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Translation of Nostra Aetate
• I. Historical and Theological Context; Why Fifty Years after the Promulgation of Nostra Aetate, One More English Translation, My Own?
• Nostra Aetate: Historical Contingency and Theological Significance
• Nostra Aetate and Ecumenism
• II. Asian Religions: Nostra Aetate and Pope Francis: Reflections on the Next Fifty Years of Catholic Dialogue with Buddhists
• Nostra Aetate and the Catholic Way of Openness to Other Religions
• Response to Dr. Francis X. Clooney's Essay, "Nostra Aetate and the Catholic Way of Openness to Other Religions"
• III. Dialogue with Muslims; The Catholic Church in Dialogue with Islam since the Promulgation of Nostra Aetate
• Response to His Eminence, Cardinal Tauran
• Muslim Dialogue with the Church after Nostra Aetate
• Thoughts on Reading Professor Nasr's "Muslim Dialogue with the Church after Nostra Aetate"
• Why Muslims Celebrate Nostra Aetate
• Response to Dr. Sayyid Syeed's Essay, "Why Muslims Celebrate Nostra Aetate"
• A Muslim Reading of Nostra Aetate: Response to Dr. Sayyid Syeed
• Reflection on Nostra Aetate
• IV. Dialogue with Jews: The International Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Jews since Nostra Aetate
• From Enemy to Partner: Toward the Realization of a Partnership between Judaism and Christianity
• Nostra Aetate and the Church's Dialogue with Jews: Fifty Years and Forward in the United States
• From Regret to Acclaim: A Jewish Reaction to Nostra Aetate
• V. Local Reception in the United States and the Academy; The Narrative Dimensions of Interreligious Dialogue
• Official Jewish-Catholic Conversations in the United States: Origins, Content, and Future
• Continuing on the Path of Nostra Aetate: A Summary of Recent Developments and Future Possibilities for the Interreligious Dialogues of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
• The Academic Reception of Nostra Aetate
• Engaging in Dialogue: CADEIO and the Diocesan Ecumenical and Interreligious Officer
• Pursuing Truth in Dialogue
• Conclusion: The Church and World Religions
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index

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ISBN

• 9780813228792 ((electronic bk.))
• 0813228794 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

958937325

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