Religious voicelessness: a challenge to the Catholic Church
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Authors
Prior, Laurence P
Issue Date
2012-08
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Article
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en
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Abstract
According to Professor Hans Küng, there will be no peace among nations until there is
peace among the religions. People of religious belief constitute the majority of
humankind who share the same basic values, such as peace, harmony, justice and
neighbourliness. Historically, there has been and there still is apathy, if not antagonism,
between people of different religious beliefs. At the Second Vatican Council (1962-
1965) the Catholic Church turned over a new page with an outreach towards the religions
of the world. In this article we will firstly look at the development of two original
documents which spell out this new attitude towards others. We will then reflect on the
present Catholic-Jewish relationship which has been marred for centuries by
indifferentism and even hatred. We then take a look at theological developments over the
past 50 years concerning the church’s relationship with other world religions, before
looking to the way forward into the future.
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Peer reviewed
Citation
Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, vol 38, Supplement, pp 281-303
Publisher
Church History Society of Southern Africa
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10170499