Guidelines on Dialogue

INTER-RELIGIOUS RELATIONS AND DIALOGUE TODAY APPROACHING RELIGIOUS PLURALITY GUIDING PRINCIPLES SOME PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS CONCLUSION 1. From its beginning, the Church has confessed that God is reconciling the world to Godself through Christ Jesus. Throughout history, the Church has been seeking to understand and apply the fundamentals of its faith to concrete situations in which it found itself. The early Church continuously had to rethink its self-understanding when it moved from being part of the Jewish tradition to becoming a church of Jews and Gentiles, and beyond its Greco-Roman setting into other cultures and regions of the world. Today the church is continually called upon to enable its members to relate to persons of other faith traditions and to live as witnesses with others.