Keywords
Catholic Church
Ecclesiology
Interreligious Dialogue
Magisterium
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Abstract
Since the Second Vatican Council, Catholic teaching has placed great emphasis on in interreligious dialogue as an integral aspect of the Church’s mission. However there remains a tension between interreligious dialogue and the church’s duty of proclaiming the gospel that constantly calls for clarification. By articulating the ecclesiological foundations of interreligious dialogue, Benedict XVI has significantly contributed to clarify the Catholic understanding of its nature and characteristics, and also suggested concrete ways in which Christians and the followers of other religions are called to engage in constructive dialogue for the good of the whole of humanity.
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Abbreviations for cited Church documents
DP Pontificium Consilium Pro Dialogo Inter Religiones. De Evangelio nuntiando et de dialogo inter religiones. Dialogo e annuncio (19 May 1991).
ES Paul VI. Ecclesiam Suam (6 August 1964).
RM John Paul II. Redemptoris Missio. Encyclical Letter on the Permanent Validity of the Church’s Missionary Mandate (7 December 1990).
NAe Second Vatican Council. Nostra Aetate (28 October 1965).
DM Secretariatus Pro Non Christianis. Riflessioni e orientamenti su dialogo e missione (10 June 1984).
LG Second Vatican Council. Lumen Gentium (21 November 1964).
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