scholarly journals What the Catholic Church Has Learnt from Interreligious Dialogue

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
Boston College ◽  
Arab States ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Jewish Learning ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
The Catholic Church

Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald, M.Afr. until recently served as the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in the Vatican. In February 2006 he was appointed by Pope Bendedict XVI to be the apostolic nuncio to Egypt and the Holy See's delegate to the League of Arab States. This address was delivered at the conference "In Our Time: Interreligious Relations in a Divided World," co-sponsored by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College and Brandeis University to mark the 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate. It was given at Brandeis University on March 16, 2006. In it, Archbishop Fitzgerald first discusses theological advances arising from interreligious dialogue, focusing on the interrelatedness of the Trinity as the basis and model for dialogue. He then turns to consider the necessary conditions for dialogue, the varied content of dialogue, the conduct of dialogue in its multiplicity of forms, and the structures necessary for the continuity of dialogue.

scholarly journals The Promise of Interreligious Dialogue for a World in Conflict

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
The Past ◽  
Boston College ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arab States ◽  
Jewish Learning ◽  
Organized Action

Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald, M.Afr. until recently served as the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in the Vatican. In February 2006 he was appointed by Pope Bendedict XVI to be the apostolic nuncio to Egypt and the Holy See's delegate to the League of Arab States. This address was delivered at the conference "In Our Time: Interreligious Relations in a Divided World," co-sponsored by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College and Brandeis University to mark the 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate. It was given at Boston College on March 16, 2006. After reviewing regions of conflict in the world, Archbishop Fitzgerald first discusses what interreligious dialogue cannot do. He then explores the Catholic Church's understanding of dialogue as reflected in Nostra Aetate. He considers how a history of past conflicts can be overcome by (1) forgetting the past; (2) achieving mutual understanding; and (3)collaborating. Finally, he examines how dialogues can be encouraged through good neighborliness, through organized action, with intellectual backing, and with spiritual backing.

scholarly journals Natural law and human rights

ADVOCATUS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (29) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander González García
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Common Word ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Common Base ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

This article studies the proposal of the Catholic Church towards a common base for interreligious dialogue. For the Church, dialogue with other religions can not be based on the commandments of love, as Muslim leaders suggest in their document "A Common Word" (2007), because it is an exclusive idea between Christians and Muslims; that is why the Church presents in several documents the idea of the natural law as a common pillar for all people, believers and non-believers, since God has provided humanity with reason, and this can guide human beings towards common benefit. This article analyzes the natural law as a valid means for interreligious relations.

The Catholic Church and the Other Religious Paths: Rejecting Nothing that is True and Holy

2003 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Fredericks
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
The Other ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Multiple Issues ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Catholic Church

[Catholic thinking about other religious traditions has continued to develop rapidly since the Second Vatican Council. The author discusses the impact of conciliar texts, the thought of John Paul II, the “pluralist” and “regnocentric” theologies of religion, and the practice of interreligious dialogue on Catholic views of other religious paths. The multiple issues selected for discussion reflect the controversy surrounding the declaration Dominus Iesus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.]

scholarly journals The Catholic Context in Bonhoeffer's Lifetime

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald J. Dietrich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Boston College ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
Theological School ◽  
Jewish Learning

Delivered during a panel discussion entitled "Bonhoeffer's Context: The Churches' Responses to Nazism" during the conference Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Our Times: Jewish and Christian Perspectives, cosponsored by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Hebrew College, and Andover-Newton Theological School, September 17, 2006. The essay discusses the lack of resistance by the Catholic Church in general and, with some exceptions, by Catholic theologians in particular.

One Text, Two Declarations: Theological Trajectories from Nostra Aetate

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Reid Locklin
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Bernard Lonergan ◽  
New Era ◽  
Theological Foundation ◽  
The Catholic Church

Nostra Aetate inaugurated a new era of interreligious dialogue in the Catholic Church, but the theological foundation it provided for such dialogue is complex. This article traces two different heuristic trajectories: a universalist trajectory revealed in Nostra Aetate 1–2 and reflected in the work of Bernard Lonergan, and a particularist trajectory in Nostra Aetate 4 and the work of Gregory Baum. Once distinguished, these two trajectories reveal a fruitful tension at the heart of the church’s new engagement with other religious paths.

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