Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 91 No. 4, 2021.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.91.4.6
Upbringing, Education, and Formation for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue According to the Documents of the Catholic Church
Juro Zečević-Božić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Tomislav Kovač
orcid.org/0000-0001-9157-2079
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Documents and statements of the magisterium of the Catholic Church, especially after the Second Vatican Council, point out the ecumenical and interreligious dimension in affirmative and even obligatory contexts. The need for upbringing, education, and formation for ecumenical and interreligious dialogue is certainly recognized and acknowledged on the declarative level, but on the level of application the state of the matter varies, depending on different, conducive, or less conducive, circumstances in certain areas and on differences in sociological environments in the world. The aim of this article is to demonstrate and illustrate the fact of magisterial advocacy directed towards upbringing, educating, and forming new generations, i.e., enabling them to develop constructive relations and to live together with members of other religions and those of different worldviews in a plural global society. That advocacy will be illustrated by concrete statements of the magisterium of various levels in relevant documents of the Catholic Church and, thus, the article aims to raise awareness of the importance of those principles on the level of application and to contribute to a higher level of congruence between institutional components and all lay faithful in those guidelines, incentives, and expectations of the magisterium of the Church. The first part of the article analyses documents related to upbringing, education, and formation for ecumenism, while the second part analyses these aspects in documents related to interreligious dialogue.
Keywords
ecumenical dialogue; interreligious dialogue; intercultural dialogue; Catholic Church; upbringing and education; theological formation; coexistence
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Publication date:
15.3.2022.
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