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Pope Benedict XVI on Nostra Aetate and Islam

This Rock Volume 18, Number 2   February 2007     Reasons for Hope By Cherie Peacock   Letters   God Made It. We Can’t Change It. By Mary Beth Kremski   Live by the Sea and You Will See God By Peter Kreeft   Pope Benedict Speaks to Muslims By Matthew E. Bunson   Islam in a Nutshell   The Five Pillars   Pope Benedict XVI on Nostra Aetate and Islam   Quo Vadis, Canterbury? The Plight of the Anglican Church By Dwight Longenecker   Does the Watch Tower Society Speak for God? By Joel Peters   Damascus Road How We Caught the Roman Flu By Paul and Anise Yarbrough   By the Book Judge Not? By Jim Blackburn   Truth be Told A True Christian Conquest By Matthew E. Bunson   Up a Notch Elementary Logic and the Beginning of Life By Patrick Beeman   Classic Apologetics Freedom in Truth By Oliver Barres   Quick Questions   Last Writes By Karl Keating    Preview (pdf; 3MB)    Subscribe    Permissions

For more than forty years, the teaching of the Second Vatican Council has inspired and guided the approach taken by the Holy See and by local churches throughout the world to relations with the followers of other religions. Following the biblical tradition, the Council teaches that the entire human race shares a common origin and a common destiny: God, our Creator and the goal of our earthly pilgrimage. Christians and Muslims belong to the family of those who believe in the one God and who, according to their respective traditions, trace their ancestry to Abraham. (cf. Second Vatican Council, Nostra Aetate 1, 3)