Nostra Ætate

Nostra Ætate is the Déclaration on the Church and the Religions Not-Christian women of the Concile Vatican II. It was promulgated the October 28th 1965 by the pope Paul VI, having been voted 2.221 votes for and 88 votes against at the time of the last Concile. Its title means At our time in Latin.

Nostra Ætate is the document founder of the interreligieux Dialog contemporary which regulates the new relations between Christian, Juif S, Musulman S, Bouddhiste S and Hindou S. In 2005, the religious leaders met to celebrate the fortieth birthday of its promulgation.

Preamble

The declaration starts by affirming the common origin of all the Homme S (Act 17:26): “All the Peuple S form, indeed, only one Communauté; they have only one origin, since God made live all the human Race on the face of the Ground”. The the Vatican recognizes that all the Religion S try to answer the fundamental questions which strike the human condition (Vie, Péché, Souffrance, Bonheur, Mort, Existence, Jugement).

These new reflections are justified by the increase in the relations between the Peuple S and the desire of the Église to promote the Unité.

Hindu S and Buddhist S

The Église does not reject these Religion S, it respects them, even if it is held to announce the Christ.

The document recognizes the Sagesse Eastern Religion S, especially for their inexhaustible thirst for the Sagesse mysterious and divine:

“Thus, in the Hindouisme, the Homme S scan the divine Mystère and express it by the inexhaustible fruitfulness of the Mythe S and by the penetrating efforts of the Philosophie; they seek the release of the Angoisse S of our condition, either by the forms of the ascetic life, or by the major Méditation, or by the refuge in God with Amour and Confiance. ”

Nostra Ætate recalls that the Église S Christian women share a similar point of view with the Bouddhiste S as for the insufficiency of the world and the need for Mystique, of Dévotion and release.

“In the Buddhism, according to its varied forms, the radical insufficiency of this changing world is recognized and one teaches a way by which the Homme S, with a Cœur devout and trustful, will be able either to acquire the state of perfect release, or to reach the supreme illumination by their own efforts or a help come from in top. ”

In this text, the Église recognizes the need to make progress these spiritual values common.

Moslem S

The Catholic church declares that it estimates the Moslems for their worship of only one God which spoke with the Homme S. It estimates their waiting of the day of the Jugement, them Jeûne, them Aumône and them Prière.

“They seek to subject of all them heart to the decrees of God, even if they are hidden, as submitted itself to God Abraham, to which the Islamic faith refers readily. ”

Nostra Ætate recalls that Allah is same the God as God of Abraham in the Old Testament. The Christian and the Musulman S divide the abrahamic faith. The Musulman S do not recognize Jesus like God, but the Église is delighted by their Dévotion for his mother the Virgin Mary.

The declaration continues while exhorting to forget the difficulties of last and to promote the Valeur S communes of Social justice, Paix and Liberté

Jewish S

The Église recognizes that the first steps of its safety are in the patriarch S, Moïse and the Prophète S.

“The Église believes, indeed, that the Christ, our Paix, reconciled the Juif S and the Nice ones by its cross and in itself of both did only one” (Eph 2,14-16).

Even if, during the Passion, of the Jewish authorities and their partisans pushed with died of the Christ, that cannot be charged to the Juif S living then, nor with the Jews of our Temps, continues the declaration. The Juif S should not be represented like cursed any more. The spiritual inheritance between Christian Jews and being so large, the Council encourages the recognition and the mutual regard between Juif S and chrétiens.

The Église quotes the Apôtre Paul which recalls that the Jewish people are always very expensive with God. (Romans, 9,4-5). By this document, the Église “rejects all the Persécution S against all the Homme S”, referring to the Shoah and many the Pogrom S and persecutions which marked the Histoire of the Jewish people. The Church also says that she believes that the Christ, by her cross, reconciled the Juif S and Gentils and of both made one Peuple of it.

Conclusion

Nostra Ætate is concluded by a call to the universal Fraternité. Since God sapped all divisions between the human beings, it does not exist there any more any reason to create Discrimination S. Pierre and Paul, Apôtre S, consigned themselves “to have in the middle of the Nation S a beautiful control”. The Man S being created with the image of God, it is thus impossible to call upon God without acting fraternally.

See too

Dialog inter-monk

External bonds

Text in French
Text in Latin
the turning of Nostra Aetate, 4 (October 28th 1965), on the site of the biblical studies.

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