Religious Pluralism from the Catholic Point of View

• Authors: Zbigniew Józef Kubacki

Abstracts

EN

The question about how religious pluralism should properly be understood from the Catholic point of view has been asked since the outset of Christianity. It was also formulated in the context of A Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb. The present article gives a theological interpretation of the sentence included in the Abu Dhabi document: “The pluralism and the diversity of religions, color, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings.” It argues that this passage should be understood correctly within the inclusivist paradigm that recognizes and confers to non-Christian religions and to religious pluralism a status de iure without jeopardizing the foundations of Catholic faith: the unicity and salvific universality of Jesus Christ and the Church. In conclusion, the question concerning the application of the assertion to the case of Islam has been explored.

Keywords

EN

Religious pluralism; Christianity; Islam; pluralist paradigm; inclusivist de facto paradigm; inclusivist de iure paradigm; interreligious dialog

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Verbum Vitae
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 527-542

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Zbigniew Józef Kubacki

• Catholic Academy in Warsaw - Collegium Bobolanum

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/vv.12297

Biblioteka Nauki

1603565