Vatican II

Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims

Gavin D'Costa

Provides the most comprehensive map of different approaches to interpreting the Second Vatican Council
Illuminates the future of interreligious relations in the modern world by focusing on the largest Christian Church in the world regarding their attitude to the world religions
Offers a doctrinal guide of the Catholic Church's teachings on all non-Christian religions, focusing on Judaism and Islam

Vatican II

Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims

Gavin D'Costa

Description

Gavin D'Costa breaks new ground in this authoritative study of the Second Vatican Council's doctrines on other religions, with particular attention to Judaism and Islam. The focus is exclusively on the doctrinal foundations found in Lumen Gentium 16 that will serve Catholicism in the twenty first century. D'Costa provides a map outlining different hermeneutical approaches to the Council, whilst synthesising their strengths and providing a critique of their weaknesses. Moreover, he classifies the different authority attributed to doctrines thereby clarifying debates regarding continuity, discontinuity, and reform in doctrinal teaching.

Vatican II: Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims expertly examines the Council's revolutionary teaching on Judaism which has been subject to conflicting readings, including the claim that the Council reversed doctrinal teachings in this area. Through a rigorous examination of the debates, the drafts, the official commentary, and with consideration of the previous Council and papal doctrinal teachings on the Jews, D'Costa lays bare the doctrinal achievements of the Council, and concludes with a similar detailed examination of Catholic doctrines on Islam. This innovative text makes essential interventions in the debate about Council hermeneutics and doctrinal teachings on the religions.

Vatican II

Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims

Gavin D'Costa

Vatican II

Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims

Gavin D'Costa

Author Information

Gavin D'Costa is Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Bristol and has advised the Vatican and the English and Welsh Catholic Church and the English Anglican Church on interreligious dialogue. His publications include The Second Vatican Council: Celebrating its Achievements and the Future (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Religion in a Liberal State (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Vatican II

Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims

Gavin D'Costa

Reviews and Awards

"D Costa succeeds in his intended purpose...His research and examination of the doctrines defined by the Council...is excellent, and offers a valuable resource for engaging the question critically."--Reading Religion

"[S]cholars will be grateful to D'Costa for much scrupulous sifting that leads to judicious conclusions." --Theology

"Intervening in the current debate over continuity and discontinuity at the Second Vatican Council, Gavin D Costa focuses narrowly on the formal magisterial doctrines of the Catholic Church regarding Jews and Muslims."--Journal of Religion