Nostra Aetate, Non-Christian Religions, and Interfaith Relations 3030540073, 9783030540074

Table of contents :
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Nostra Aetate and Its Relevance for Today
Part I Nostra Aetate: Historical and Social Context
2 Correcting the Nostra Aetate Legend: The Contested, Minimal, and Almost Failed Effort to Embrace a Tragedy and Amend Christian Attitudes Toward Jews, Muslims, and the Followers of Other Religions
Introduction
Correcting the Legend: A Simple Mandate and No More
Correcting the Legend: For a Constructive View of Muslims
Correcting the Legend: Pope Paul VI Made Nostra Aetate Possible
Correcting the Legend: Christian Delegated Observers and Other Guests
Correcting the Legend: The Insignificance of Two Different Words for Dialogue
Correcting the Legend: Becoming a Declaration Is Not Downgrading the Status
Correcting the Legend: Missionaries Expanded Nostra Aetate
Bringing Nostra Aetate to a Successful Conclusion: One Final Crisis
3 The Ecclesial and Theological Origins of Nostra Aetate and Its Significance for Present and Future Interfaith Engagement
The Emergence of Nostra Aetate
Immediate Historical and Ecclesial Context: The Shoah
Broader Historical and Ecclesial Context: The First Signs of a New Form of Papacy
The Drafting of the Declaration: Resistance and Growth
The Post-Vatican II Popes and Nostra Aetate
Paul VI and Nostra Aetate
Paul VI on Judaism vis-à-vis Nostra Aetate
Paul VI on Islam vis-à-vis Nostra Aetate
John Paul II and Nostra Aetate
John Paul II on Judaism vis-à-vis Nostra Aetate
John Paul II on Islam vis-à-vis Nostra Aetate
Benedict XVI and Nostra Aetate
Benedict XVI on Judaism vis-à-vis Nostra Aetate
Benedict XVI on Islam vis-à-vis Nostra Aetate
Nostra Aetate and the Future of Dialogue
Part II Nostra Aetate: Relationship with the Jewish People
4 Harvest and Horizons: An Appraisal of Nostra Aetate Para. 4
Transforming Discourse
Taking Action
Working Together
Salvation in Christ
The Theological Significance of the Land and State of Israel
Conclusion: What About the Others?
5 Naming the Fellowship Between the Church and the Jewish People at the Second Vatican Council and in Our Time
The Theological Genesis of Nostra Aetate Paragraph 4
The Theological Genesis of Lumen Gentium’s Theology of the People of God
Jews and Christians as People of God: A Reading of Lumen Gentium in Tandem with Nostra Aetate
Naming and Living the Fellowship in Our Time
Naming Our Fellowship: A Relation Sui Generis
Naming Our Fractures and Divisions
Reframing Theological Dichotomies
Conclusion
Part III Nostra Aetate: Relationship with Islam and Eastern Christians
6 Catholic Saints and Scholars: Nostra Aetate and Islam
Nostra Aetate and Islam
Louis Massignon
Christian de Chergé
Conclusion
7 From the Margins to the Center: Exploring Nostra Aetate in the Lives of Charles de Foucauld, Louis Massignon, and Pierre Claverie
Roots of Nostra Aetate: The Witness of Charles de Foucauld and Louis Massignon
Courbe de la vie
De Foucauld’s Witness to Muslims
Massignon’s Witness to Muslims
The Second Vatican Council’s Teaching on Dialogue with Muslims
The Influence of de Foucauld and Massignon on Conciliar Teaching
Nostra Aetate in the Post-Conciliar Period: The Vocation of Pierre Claverie, “A life Poured Out”69
Pierre Claverie’s Approach to Dialogue
Claverie’s Approach to Dialogue: Nostra Aetate and Dignitatis Humanae
Conclusion
8 The Christian West and the Eastern Patriarchates: Reflections on Nostra Aetate and the World of Islam
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9 The Holy See, Islam, and the Role of the Eastern Catholic Patriarchs in Developing Nostra Aetate
Nostra Aetate’s Statement on Muslims and Islam
The Origin of Nostra Aetate
Pioneers of Catholic Scholarship on Islam
Ecclesiam Suam and Lumen Gentium
The Pontificates of Benedict XV and Pius XI
The Dominicans and the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)
Muslim and Eastern Christian Responses to the Council
The Eastern Catholic Bishops and the Politics of Nostra Aetate
Paul VI’s Journey to the Holy Land
The Expansion of Nostra Aetate
Nostra Aetate and Contemporary Muslim–Christian Relations
Conclusion
10 Eastern Orthodox Perspectives on Nostra Aetate and Muslim–Christian Relations
The Dignity of the Human Person
Freedom
Peace and Justice
The Attitude of the Church Toward Discrimination
Part IV Nostra Aetate and Other Christian Churches
11 The Church of England’s and the Responses of the Broader European Protestant Traditions to Nostra Aetate
Introduction
Jews, Christians and Muslims: The Way of Dialogue (1988)
Generous Love (2008)
God’s Unfailing Word (2019) and the Question of Mission to the Jews
Conclusion
12 Nostra Aetate and the Christians of the Middle East
Middle Eastern Christians and Nostra Aetate During Vatican II
Middle Eastern Christians and Nostra Aetate After Vatican II
Statements on the Jews
Statement on Islam
Theologizing Islam
Christian-Muslim Dialogue and Collaboration
The Significance of Nostra Aetate for Theology in the Middle East
13 A Missionary Minefield or Millennial Partnership? American Presbyterians, Catholics, and Jews Before and After Nostra Aetate
Introduction
The Roots of American Presbyterian Division and Catholic Relations Before Nostra Aetate
Millennial Partnership? Post-Vatican II Presbyterian–Jewish Relations
The Catholic Church on the Israeli State and Jewish Salvation After Nostra Aetate
Conclusion: A Jewish Response to Nostra Aetate, Fifty Years on
Part V Nostra Aetate and Eastern Religions: Hinduism and Buddhism
14 Catholic Teaching on Hinduism in Nostra Aetate: Phenomenology of Religion and Its Theological Implications in the Case of Hindu Theism
Introduction
Nostra Aetate and Hinduism
Hindu Theism
Phenomenology of Religion and Its Theological Consequences
Conclusion
Bibliography
15 Catholic–Buddhist Relations Since the Close of the Second Vatican Council
Nostra Aetate and the Theological Value of Religious Differences
Nostra Aetate and Its Political Consequences
Nostra Aetate and the Dialogue of Religious Experience
Conclusion
Index