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In the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) the Catholic Church for the first time recognized non-Christian religions as entities which the Church should respect and with which Christians should enter into dialogue. There are, however, conflicting views in Catholic interpretations of Conciliar theology: to what extent did the Council see other religions as means to salvation? The author offers The Catholic Doctrine of non-Christian Religions according to the Second Vatican Council as the first comprehensive and analytic piece of research on Conciliar teaching concerning the nature of other faiths. His study is based on the original Latin and covers Conciliar and pre-conciliar documents, with special focus on the Declaration on the relation of the Church to Non-Christian religions, (Nostra aetate). In his detailed and careful analysis Ruokanen demonstrates that Vaticanum Secundum understood non-Christian religions as naturally good entities, part of human culture. Religions express in many ways and to varying degrees the natural cognition of God and of natural moral law. Except for Judaism, they do not, however, possess the status of being considered channels of divine revelation or salvific grace. The seeds of truth present in other faiths must be purified and perfected by the fullness of grace and truth given in Christ and entrusted to the Church.

Christianity and other religions. --- 261.3 --- Christianity and other religions --- #GROL:SEMI-261.3 --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- De Kerk en de niet-christelijke godsdiensten --- Relations --- History --- Catholic Church --- -Catholic Church --- -Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Doctrines --- -Doctrines --- 261.3 De Kerk en de niet-christelijke godsdiensten --- Doctrines. --- Relations. --- Vatican Council --- Bachikan Kōkaigi --- Concile œcuménique Vatican --- Concile Vatican --- Concilio ecumenico vaticano --- Concilio Vaticano --- Concilium Vaticanum --- Majmaʻ al-Maskūnī al-Vātīkānī --- Sobór Watykański --- Vaticà II (Council) --- Vatican 2 (Council) --- Vatican Ecumenical Council --- Vatican II (Council) --- Vaticano II (Council) --- Vaticanum 2 (Council) --- Vaticanum II (Council) --- Vatikan 2 (Council) --- Vatikan II (Council) --- Vatikaneios Synodos --- Vatikanisches Konzil --- Vatikano susirinkimas --- Vatikanski cerkveni zbor --- Vatikánsky koncil --- Vatikanum (Council) --- Vatykansʹkyĭ Sobor --- Vselensʹkyĭ Sobor Vatykansʹkyĭ --- Concile du Vatican --- Vatikánský sněm --- Church of Rome