Conference paper
Dialogue and proclamation in the time of religious pluralism
Nikola Bižaca
orcid.org/0000-0001-9412-508X
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split
Abstract
Contemporary pluralism of the way of living certainly is a great
challenge for Christianity. In this text are analized the reactions of
the Church body at the intensified spreading of the religious
pluralism, which has been getting more present also in, not long
ago, monolithic Christian areas. From onetime objective social fact,
today pluralism has been becoming for Christians a fact of their
conscience that confronts them with possibility of a new religious
option. Christian Church, as a whole, is invited to bring to
conscience its relation toward religions.
Reaction of the Church is considered at three levels: at the
level of the ordinary believers, theology and teaching body. While
the reactions of believers and theologians are only sketched with a
few lines, the central part of the text is dedicated to analysis and
interpretation of attitudes of the Catholic Church's teaching body
toward religions. These attitudes are collected around two central
topics: (I) Value of salvation of the non-Christian religions; (II)
Dialogue and proclamation. For the reason ali are taken into
consideration ali, if a bit, more significant statements of the teching
body in which it, from the Second Vatican Council untill recent
time, has been trying, actuated by the fact of religious pluralism.
To define as Christian-Catholic understandig of the religious so
variety of relations toward religions. Analyses shows certain
evolutin in the attitudes of the Church's teaching body.
Keywords
dialogue; proclamation; religious pluralism
Hrčak ID:
51432
URI
Publication date:
21.1.1997.
Visits: 2.400 *