Interreligious Friendship After Nostra Aetate

Interreligious Friendships after Nostra Aetate explores the ways in which personal relationships are essential for theology. Catholic theologians tell the personal stories of their interreligious friendships and explore the significance of their friendships for their own life and work.

The Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate) of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) called for Roman Catholics to join together with those who follow other religious paths in a spirit of cooperation, esteem, humility, and dialogue. In the 50 years since the Council, Catholics across the globe have developed extraordinary friendships with those who follow other religious paths. This volume celebrates these interreligious friendships by letting Catholics, sometimes together with their non-Christian friends, tell their own stories. These stories of real friendships will be engaging to anyone interested in the frontiers of spirituality, interreligious dialogue, or comparative theology. Interreligious Friendship after Nostra Aetate offers essays about friendships with Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and with those to practice African Traditional Religions.