Interreligious Friendship after Nostra Aetate

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.

Introduction; James L. Fredericks
1. Learning in the Presence of the Other: My Friendship with Sara Lee; Mary C. Boys
2. Michael Signer and the Language of Friendship; John C. Cavadini
3.The Blessing of Sitting Together; Elena Procario-Foley
4. Faith and Friendship; David Burrell
5. Friendship: Cultivating Theological Virtue; Marianne Farina and Massarat Khan
6. Ties that Bind: Interfaith Friend, Interfaith Kin; Rita George-Tvrtkovic
7. Rasoul, My Friend and Brother; Bradley J. Malkovsky
8. Study and Friendship: Intersections throughout an Academic Life; Francis X. Clooney
9. Jivanmukti, Freedom, and a Cassette Recorder: Friendship beyond Friendship in the Tradition of Advaita Vedanta; Reid B. Locklin
10. Toddlers and Teas: Parenting in a Multireligious World;
Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier and Mughda Yeolekar
11. With New Eyes to See: Changing the Perception of Self and Other through Interreligious Friendship; Karen B. Enriquez
12. Masao Abe: A Spiritual Friendship; James L. Fredericks
13. A Friend and Scholar: A Guide on the Way to Understanding Buddhism; Peter C. Phan
14. My Friendship with Rita Gross; Rosemary Radford Ruether
15. Interreligious Friendship: A Path to Conversion for a Catholic Theologian; SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai
16. Interreligious Friendship: Symbiosis of Human Relationship Vis-à-vis Religious Differences - A Christian Encounter with Two African Traditional Religionists; Marinus Chijioke Iwuchukwu
Conclusion; Mary Margaret Funk

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