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The Second Vatican Council on Other Religions Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

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Gerald O'Collins SJ*
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Abstract

My The Second Vatican Council on Other Religions (Oxford University Press) appeared in 2012. In 2014 it went into a paperback edition, which allowed me to list some reviews and promise to enter into dialogue with all the reviewers. This article takes up such dialogue and discusses what came from nine reviewers. Glenn Siniscalchi wrote two reviews. Eduardo Echeverria went much further by writing two long essays on the book.

Keywords

Catherine CornilleJacques DupuisEduardo EcheverriaJames HeftLeo LefebureOther ReligionsGlenn SiniscalchiVatican II
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Original Article
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New Blackfriars , Volume 103 , Issue 1107 , September 2022 , pp. 597 - 606
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Copyright © 2022 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997; the book appeared simultaneously in English, French and Italian; it appeared later in Spanish and Portuguese. For an insider's account of the debate about this work and the challenge it met from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, see O'Collins, G., On the Left Bank of the Tiber (Brisbane, Australia: Connor Court Publishing, 2013), 213–51Google Scholar.

2 Blosser, J. P., Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 51 (2013), 657Google Scholar; Colberg, Kristin, Heythrop Journal 55 (2014), 493–94CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Cornille, Catherine, Theology 117 (2014), 149–50CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Echeverria, Eduardo, ‘Vatican II and the Religions: A Review Essay’, Nova et Vetera 13 (2015), 837–73Google Scholar; Echeverria, ‘Ad O'Collins’, Father, Nova et Vetera 15 (2017), 1251–79Google Scholar; Heft, James, Theological Studies 75 (2014), 194–95CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Loggia, Marco La, Cristianesimo nella storia 36 (2015), 232–35Google Scholar; Leo Lefebure, Journal of Religion 95 (2015), 127–29Google Scholar; McCabe, Michael, Irish Theological Quarterly 79 (2014), 285–87CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Siniscalchi, Glenn B., Heythrop Journal 60 (2019), 493–95CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Siniscalchi, Journal of Ecumenical Studies 53 (2018), 617–18CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Heft pays considerable attention to Dupuis and speaks of the 1991 document of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, ‘Dialogue and Proclamation’. Heft adds: ‘according to O'Collins’, Dupuis ‘played a major role in its drafting’. We have Michael, now Cardinal Michael, Fitzgerald, who was secretary of that council when it prepared the 1991 text, also on record for recalling Dupuis's major role in drafting the document.

4 O'Collins, The Second Vatican Council on Other Religions, 162–63.

5 Ibid., 65–67.

6 See further O'Collins, G., ‘Jacques Dupuis: The Ongoing Debate’, Theological Studies 74 (2013), 632–54, at 646–48CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 Ibid., viii.

8 See Slayton, J. C., ‘Jethro’, Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 3 (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 821CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Mendenhall, E., ‘Midian, Midianites’, vol.4, 315–18Google Scholar.

9 See O'Collins, G., Inspiration: Towards a Christian Theology of Biblical Inspiration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 27, 104CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 Salvation for All, 1–78, 199–206.

11 O'Collins, ‘Vatican II on the Religions: A Response’, Nova et Vetera 15 (2017), 1243–49CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

12 Nova et Vetera, 15 (2017), 1251–79CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

13 Flannery, A. (ed.), Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post-Conciliar Documents, rev. edn (Northport, NY: Costello Publishing, 1988), 368Google Scholar. Tanner, Norman P. (ed.), Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils (Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 1990), 861Google Scholar, correctly translates saepius as ‘more often’ and Abbott, Walter M. and Gallagher, Joseph (eds), The Documents of Vatican II (New York: America Press, 1966)Google Scholar also respect the original comparative with their translation, ‘rather often’ (35).

14 Echeverria, ‘Ad Father O'Collins’, 1273.

15 Mazur, A., Tesi gregoriana: serie teologica 103 (Rome: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 2004)Google Scholar; see my The Second Vatican Council on Other Religions, 168 n. 1.

16 Ed. G. O'Collins, Daniel Kendall and Jeffrey LaBelle.