What are the main points of Nostra Aetate? Please list and describe them.What is the Catholic church’s att?

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What are the main points of Nostra Aetate? Please list and describe them.
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What is the Catholic church’s attitude to non-Christian religions in Nostra Aetate?

Answer 1

The document of Vatican II, Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the church to Non-Christian Religions and the Catechism of the Catholic Church both state:

+ About Judaism: "The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant. To the Jews "belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ"; "for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

+ About Islam: The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day.

+ About other non-Christian religions: All nations form but one community. This is so because all stem from the one stock which God created to people the entire earth, and also because all share a common destiny, namely God. His providence, evident goodness, and saving designs extend to all against the day when the elect are gathered together in the holy city.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

I provided a link for you to review Nostra Aetate, as it would be tedious to post here.

Now, the Catholic religion is called the one true religion because it is entirely true. A non-Catholic religion is called a false religion because it includes at least some falsehood, not because it includes no truth at all. A system of thought and action that was opposed to the Catholic religion on every point (supposing it to exist) could not even be called a religion.

The truth is that such religions, in varying proportions, include both some truth and some falsehood, some good and some evil. And that is basically what the Council Fathers said at Vatican II, in the same paragraph as the statement "She [the Church] has a high regard for the manner oif life and conduct, the precepts and doctrines which, although differing in many ways from her own teaching, nevertheless often reflect a ray of that truth which enlightens all men. Yet she proclaims and is in duty bound to proclaim without fail, Christ who is the way, the truth and the life (Jn. 14:6). In him, in whom God reconciled all things to himself (2 Cor. 5:18-19), men find the fullness of their religious life" [Nostra Aetate, 2].

Answer 3

Nostra Aetate Summary

Answer 4

Its funny how Catholics raise such a fit over such a simple matter. The Scriptures give no reason why Mary should have remained a virgin. Having other children would have had no effect on Jesus. But having other children WOULD have an effect on the image of their Goddess, Mary; that is the heart of this issue. Catholics cannot stand the thought of lowering their "Mother Goddess" figure down to the level of an ordinary human (See answer from Lizrz and Jackie above). As for the evidence, I will reiterate the points that I made on a similar questions 2 weeks ago: That Jesus had half brothers and sisters the Bible clearly states. The fact that Jesus was mentioned as Mary’s firstborn implies that Mary must have had other children. (Luke 2:7) Furthermore, these other children must have been by means of her husband Joseph, because it is recorded that Joseph had relations with her after Jesus was born. (Matt. 1:25) It would be foolish to assert that Joseph would somehow be forbidden to have relations with HIS OWN WIFE after Jesus' birth, especially considering that the angel spoke nothing of forced celibacy in his instructions to Joseph and Mary. The two scriptures that mention that Jesus had sisters, though they are not individually mentioned by name, indicate that in their home town of Nazareth the whole family of boys and girls were well known. (Matt. 13:56; Mark 6:3) The Bible gives the names of Jesus’ brothers as James, Joseph, Simon and Judas. (Matt. 13:55) And as regards assertions by some here on the subject of the Greek words used to distinguish family members, there are distinct Greek words for brother and cousin. “‘This is the carpenter the son of Mary and the brother [Greek, a·del·phos′] of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon, is it not? And his sisters [Greek, a·del·phai′] are here with us, are they not?’ So they began to stumble at him.” (Mark 6:3) “Do not call . . . your relatives [Greek, syg·ge·neis′].” (Luke 14:12) “Mark the cousin [Greek, a·ne·psi·os′] of Barnabas . . .” (Colossians 4:10) So whether or not the words in the Hebrew Aramaic language for "brother" and "cousin" were the same does not matter AT ALL. The fact is that in Koine GREEK, there were two distinct words, and the writers of the GREEK Scriptures CHOSE to use the distinct word for "brother" and not "cousin." John P. Meier, former president of the Catholic Bible Association of America, wrote: “In the N[ew] T[estament] adelphos [brother], when used not merely figuratively or metaphorically but rather to designate some sort of physical or legal relationship, means only full or half-brother, and nothing else.” =Edit= Congratulations Johnny De! You've given the statistically worst answer that I've ever seen =) *hands Johnny De a little trophy* Breakdown of Johnny De's answer: 1164 Words long Out of those 1164 words, 229 (20%) actually attempt to make points. Out of those 229 words, he makes 3 points, 2 of which are irrelevant 1. We were there, we know 2. Matthew was originally written in Hebrew/Aramaic (even though the original Hebrew Aramaic copy no longer exists anywhere) 3. The siblings were not at the execution The remaining 935 words (80%) consist entirely of ad hominem attacks on the askers abilities and on the faith of protestants. Favorite Johnny De Quotes: “is this what you learned from Chuck Smith? How to lie in writing?” "not that greek is even important because it is not.” "We don't rely on the bible for our information, we were there and then we wrote the bible."

Answer 5

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I remember this...When I was teaching high school English, I decided to see which books on my reading list were banned. All of them were. I also find it interesting that every work by Oscar Wilde is banned, including his children's stories that taught very valuable morals for the most part. He was a "death bed convert" to Roman Catholicism, too... Epic fail on the Holy See's part. Edit: Yes, the list is technically deleted, but the fact it existed until so recently (I consider anything beyond the early 1900s to be too recent for something of this nature) is disturbing enough. And you would be surprised how many people still take this kind of list into account.