Klausnitzer, Wolfgang (Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, 2013)
The Declaration “Nostra Aetate” of Vatican II is a new landmark in the relation of the Church with the followers of other religions. With it a new theological discipline begins, the theology of religions. The article discusses different Christian attitudes towards the other (non- Christian) religions (idolatry, expression of the religious longing of mankind, “praeparatio Evangelii”, a step in the intellectual and mental development of men, expression of the divine acting in a specific culture) before that Declaration. It analyzes its text, describes the debates in the Germanspeaking Catholic theology and argues (in the sense of Nostra Aetate) for a practical contest of the different religions in which the followers of a specific religion try to translate its noble ideals into a practical life.
