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Since the end of Vatican II, there has been a veritable avalanche of publications, in practically all the main languages of the world, on the council as a whole and in particular on its “Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions,” known by its first two Latin words Nostra Aetate (In Our Day; hereafter NA). Commentaries upon commentaries on the 16 documents of the council have been published as single-authored monographs or as multivol-ume edited collections, of which the five-volume Herders Theolo-gischer Kommentar zum Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil deserves special notice.1 In addition, detailed histories of the council have been written, the most notable among which is the five-volume, door-stopper size History of Vatican II, directed by Giuseppe Alberigo of the famed Istituto per le Scienze Religiose in Bologna, Italy.2 In its recent issues, the premier English-language theological journal Theological Studies hosted a number of first-rate studies on the history, interpretation, and reception of Vatican II. Even the most dedicated specialists on Vatican II, let alone an amateur historian like me, would be lying were they to claim to have read all the most important publications on the council, even in a single European language.
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Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil, 5 vols., ed. Peter Hünermann and Bernd Jochen Hilberath (Freiburg: Herder, 2004–6).
History of Vatican II, 5 vols., ed. Giuseppe Alberigo; English version, ed., Joseph A. Komonchak (Louvain: Peeters, 1995–2006; Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995–2006).
For an insightful and highly readable evaluation of the council of Trent, see John W. O’Malley, Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000) and Trent: What Happened at the Council (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2013).
Among English-language works that attempt to decipher the meaning and impact of Vatican II, the following deserve mention: Ladislas Orsy, Receiving the Council: Theological and canonical Insights and Debates (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2009);
John W. O’Malley, What Happened at Vatican II (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008);
David G. Schultenover, ed., Vatican II: Did Any-thing Happen?(London: Continuum, 2008);
James L. Heft and John O’Malley, eds., After Vatican II: Trajectories and Hermeneutics (Grandrapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2012);
Massimo Faggioli, Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning (New York: Paulist Press, 2012);
Ormond Rush, Still Interpreting Vatican II: Some Hermeneutical Principles (New York: Paulist Press, 2004).
Recent literature on interreligious dialogue in general and dialogue with particular traditions, mostly between Christianity on the one hand and Judaism and Islam on the other, is legion. Since the focus of this essay is on the Catholic Church, I will mention only some the most significant works by Roman Catholics in the English language: Catherine Cornille, ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dia-logue (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013);
Karl J. Becker and Ilaria Morali, eds., Catholic Engagement with World Religions: A Comprehensive Study (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2010);
Dermot A. Lane, Stepping Stones to Other Religions: A Christian Theology of Inter-Religious Dialogue (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011);
Michael L. Fitzgerald and John Borelli, Interfaith Dialogue: A Catholic View (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006);
Gerald O’Collins, The Second Vatican Council on Other Religions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); and the writings by Jacques Dupuis, Paul Knitter, James Fredericks, Gavin D’Costa, Aloy-sius Pieris, Michael Amaladoss, Felix Wilfred, and many other, especially Asian, theologians.
English text in The Christian Faith in the Doctrinal Documents of the Catholic Church, rev. ed., ed. J. Neuner and J. Dupuis (New York: Alba House, 1982), 277–78.
The English text of NA is taken from Austin Flannery, ed., Vatican Council II: Constitutions, Decrees, Declarations (Northport, NY: Costello, 2007), 569–74.
Franz König, “It Must Be the Holy Spirit,” The Tablet 21, no. 28 (2002): 6.
Thomas Stransky, “The Genesis of Nostra Aetate,” America (October 24, 2005), 1–4.
Francesco Gioia, ed., Interreligious Dialogue: The Official Teaching of the Catholic Church (1963–2005) (Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 2006), 165.
See Paul Knitter, Introducing Theologies of Religions (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2002).
Dermot A. Lane, Stepping Stones to Other Religions: A Christian Theology of Inter-Religious Dialogue (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2011).
See especially Jacques Dupuis, Christianity and the Religions: From Confrontation to Dialogue (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002).
See, for instance, Adam H. Becker and Annette Yoshiko Reed, eds., The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2007).
Among biographies of Jorge Bergoglio, two stand out: Paul Vallely, Pope Francis: Untying the Knots (London: Bloomsbury, 2013)
and Austen Ivereigh, The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope (New York: Henry Holt, 2014).
Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Abraham Skorka, Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2011).
Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Abraham Skorka, On Heaven and Earth (New York: Image, 2010), xix.
See also, Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti, Pope Francis: His Life in His Own Words (New York: G. P. Putnam, 2013), 135–45 on what Bergoglio then termed the “Culture of Cooperation.”
For an attempt to chart the directions of Pope Francis’s Petrine ministry, see Paul Crowley, ed., From Vatican II to Pope Francis: Charting a Catholic Future (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2014).
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Phan, P.C. (2016). Interreligious Dialogue. In: Mannion, G. (eds) Where We Dwell in Common. Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137503152_11
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