SECOND VATICAN

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Mission in Dialogue
1962 1965
SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL
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NOSTRA AETATE(art. 1)

• In this age of ours, when men are drawing more
  closely together and the bonds of friendship
  between different peoples are being strengthened,
  the Church examines with greater care the
  relation which she has to non-Christian
  religions.
• Ever aware of her duty to foster unity and
  charity among individuals, and even among
  nations, she reflects at the outset on what men
  have in common and what tends to promote
  fellowship among them.

Declaration on the Relation of the Church to
non-christian religions - Nostra Aetate
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NOSTRA AETATE(art. 1)

• The Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is
  true and holy in these religions. She has a high
  regard for the manner of 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.
• The Church, therefore, urges her sons to enter
  with prudence and charity into discussion and
  collaboration with members of other religions.
• Let Christians, while witnessing to their own
  faith and way of life, acknowledge, preserve and
  encourage the spiritual and moral truths found
  among non-Christians, and also their social life
  and culture

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Assisi Day of Prayer for Peace (1986, 1999, 2002)
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Established in 1972 the FABC is the pan-Asian
institution which officially represents the more
than 100 million Catholics in Asia. Through its
numerous assemblies, institutes, and statements
it has evolved a theology of the local church
which takes seriously the contextual approach to
doing theology. Its most significant
contribution is the triple dialogue of the
Church with the poor, the cultures, and the
religions of Asia.
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• Doing theology in an Asian context means taking
  into account contextual realities as resources of
  theology.
• as Asian Christians, we do theology together
  with Asian realities as resources, insofar as we
  discern in them Gods presence, action and the
  work of the Spirit.

• The cultures of peoples, the history of their
  struggles, their religions, their religious
  scriptures, oral traditions, popular religiosity,
  economic and political realities and world
  events, historical personages, stories of
  oppressed people crying for justice, freedom,
  dignity, life, and solidarity become resources of
  theology, and assume methodological importance in
  our context.

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Colonial Christianity
Mission and Evangelization in Asia
Inculturated Christianity