Nostra Aetate, Non-Christian Religions, and Interfaith Relations

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Nostra Aetate and Its Relevance for Today -- Part I Nostra Aetate: Historical and Social Context -- 2 Correcting the Nostra Aetate Legend: The Contested, Minimal, and Almost Failed Effort to Embrace a Tragedy and Amend Christian Attitudes Toward Jews, Muslims, and the Followers of Other Religions -- Introduction -- Correcting the Legend: A Simple Mandate and No More -- Correcting the Legend: For a Constructive View of Muslims -- Correcting the Legend: Pope Paul VI Made Nostra Aetate Possible -- Correcting the Legend: Christian Delegated Observers and Other Guests -- Correcting the Legend: The Insignificance of Two Different Words for Dialogue -- Correcting the Legend: Becoming a Declaration Is Not Downgrading the Status -- Correcting the Legend: Missionaries Expanded Nostra Aetate -- Bringing Nostra Aetate to a Successful Conclusion: One Final Crisis -- 3 The Ecclesial and Theological Origins of Nostra Aetate and Its Significance for Present and Future Interfaith Engagement -- The Emergence of Nostra Aetate -- Immediate Historical and Ecclesial Context: The Shoah -- Broader Historical and Ecclesial Context: The First Signs of a New Form of Papacy -- The Drafting of the Declaration: Resistance and Growth -- The Post-Vatican II Popes and Nostra Aetate -- Paul VI and Nostra Aetate -- Paul VI on Judaism vis-à-vis Nostra Aetate -- Paul VI on Islam vis-à-vis Nostra Aetate -- John Paul II and Nostra Aetate -- John Paul II on Judaism vis-à-vis Nostra Aetate -- John Paul II on Islam vis-à-vis Nostra Aetate -- Benedict XVI and Nostra Aetate -- Benedict XVI on Judaism vis-à-vis Nostra Aetate -- Benedict XVI on Islam vis-à-vis Nostra Aetate -- Nostra Aetate and the Future of Dialogue -- Part II Nostra Aetate: Relationship with the Jewish People.

Introduction: Nostra Aetate and Its Relevence for Today /Kail C. Ellis --Part I Nostra Aetate: Historical and Social Contexts --Correcting the Nostra Aetate Legend: The Contested, Minimal, and Almost Failed Effort to Embrace a Tragedy and Amend Christian Attitudes Toward Jews, Muslims, and the Followers of Other Religions /John Borelli --The Ecclesial and Theological Origins of Nostra Aetate and Its Significance for Present and Future Interfaith Engagement /Rocco Viviano --Part II Nostra Aetate: Relationship with the Jewish People --Harvest and Horizons: An Appraisal of Nostra Aetate Para. 4 /David Mark Neuhaus --Naming the Fellowship Between the Church and the Jewish People at the Second Vatican Council and in Our Time /Elizabeth T. Groppe --Part III Nostra Aetate: Relationship with Islam and Eastern Christians --Catholic Saints and Scholars: Nostra Aetate and Islam /Christian S. Krokus --From the Margins to the Center: Exploring Nostra Aetate in the Lives of Charles de Foucauld, Louis Massignon, and Pierre Claverie /Isabel Olizar --The Christian West and the Eastern Patriarchates: Reflections on Nostra Aetate and the World of Islam /Sidney H. Griffith --The Holy See, Islam, and the Role of the Eastern Catholic Patriarchs in Developing Nostra Aetate /Kail C. Ellis --Eastern Orthodox Perspectives on Nostra Aetate and Muslim-Christian Relations /Archimandrite Nikodemos Anagnostopoulos --Part IV Nostra Aetate and Other Christian Churches --The Church of England's and the Responses of the Broader European Protestant Traditions to Nostra Aetate /Richard Sudworth --Nostra Aetate and the Christians of the Middle East /George Sabra --A Missionary Minefield or Millennial Partnership? American Presbyterians, Catholics, and Jews Before and After Nostra Aetate /Kaley M. Carpenter --Part V Nostra Aetate and Eastern Religions: Hinduism and Buddhism --Catholic Teaching on Hinduism in Nostra Aetate: Phenomenology of Religion and Its Theological Implications in the Case of Hindu Theism /Martin Ganeri --Catholic-Buddhist Relations Since the Close of the Second Vatican Council /James L. Fredericks.