¹ This is the burden of Karl Rahner's celebrated “world-church” lecture, published in Theological Studies 40 (1979)as “Towards a Fundamental Interpretation of Vatican II.”

² Nostra Aetate, par 3..

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⁶ Summa Theologiae 1.13.5, with an illuminating Appendix to the Blackfriars’ edition by Herbert McCabe on “imperfect signification”(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965); see my “Maimonides, Aquinas and Ghazali on Naming God,” in Ochs, Peter, ed., The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity(New York, NY: Paulist Press, 1993) 233–55Google Scholar.

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⁸ Jean Daniélou Salvation of the Nations; translated by Angeline Bouchard (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1962).

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²³ I am indebted to Dan Philpott for showing me the essay by Ronald Wells: “Northern Ireland: A Study of Friendship, Forgiveness and Reconciliation,” which will appear in his edited book: