cmc - inter-religious dialogue

What does Nostra Aetate teach about the Church’s view of non-Christian religions?

The Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in other religions.

According to Nostra Aetate 1, what do people turn to religions mainly to seek?

The answers to the unsolved riddles of the human condition

What was the goal of the document Nostra Aetate?

Unity, Love, and Fellowship

What document most directly addressed interreligious dialogue at Vatican II?

Nostra Aetate - Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions

According to Vatican II, how is salvation related to those who do not know Christ or his Church?

Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church …may achieve eternal salvation.” But still through Christ

Where did Hinduism originate and where is it still most widely practiced today?

The Indus Valley region of India

What is a sacred symbol that symbolizes Brahman, the infinite and ultimate reality? When written, It is often used as a symbol for Hinduism.

Aum

Which pair of ideas is especially central in Hindu thought and ethics?

Karma and reincarnation

According to Nostra Aetate, how do Hindus seek freedom from the “anguish of the human condition”? There are three answers.

Asceticism, Meditation, and loving trust in God

In Hinduism, figures like Ganesha, the remover of obstacles, represent a higher reality—what is that ultimate reality behind all the deities known as?

Brahman

In Buddhism, what is considered a way of right living and meditation that leads out of suffering?

The Eightfold Path

What is the Buddhist symbol which represents purity and enlightenment rising above the suffering of the world?

The Lotus Flower

In Mahayana Buddhism, what is the name of the righteous figure who strives for enlightenment for all beings, even delaying final nirvana?

Bodhisattva

In Nostra Aetate the Church says that Buddhism recognizes the “radical insufficiency” of what aspect of reality?

The Changeable World

What are the Four Noble Truths?

There is suffering, suffering has a cause in desire, suffering can end, follow the eight-fold path

Who is considered ”our father in faith” within Judaism, Christianity and Islam?

Abraham

Which branch of Judaism is most traditional, holding that written and oral Torah are divinely given and binding?

Orthodox

What is a system of biblical law from a book of Leviticus and interpreted by the rabbis in the Talmud and later Jewish law that dictates the way Jews eat?

Kosher

What describes a celebration marking the coming of age of a Jewish child, when they take on adult religious responsibilities and read from the Torah in Hebrew at a synagogue?

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Christianity and Judaism value which three practices as ways of worshiping God and caring for others?

Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving

What is Islam’s holy book?

The Qur'an

How do Muslims view Jesus, according to Nostra Aetate?

As a great prophet whom they revere

According to Nostra Aetate 3, how does the Church view Muslims?

people who adore the one merciful God

What is main historical difference between Sunni and Shia Islam?

Who should have led the Muslim community after Muhammad’s death

What are the Five Pillars in Islam?

Shahada - Profession of Faith

Prayer Five Times a Day

Almsgiving

Fasting during Ramadan

Hajj - Pilgrimage to Mecca