A igreja, sinal e instrumento de salvação: aspectos teológicos para o ecumenismo e diálogo inter-religioso

• Autor(a) principal: Tostes, Anderson Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/18376
• topic: Eclesiologia; Ecumenismo; Diálogo inter-religioso; Ecclesiology; Ecumenism; Interreligious dialogue; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA

The Church is a sign and instrument of salvation in the world, and as such it has to work towards the unity of humankind and for the good of all creation. The dialogue, ecumenical and interfaith, is a very important expression of God's Work. And in the context of the Salvific Economy dialogue is to work for dignity and human person promotion, promoting the way for eschatological Kingdom development. It intends to present God's creation as a symbol of His love for humanity. And that relationship ability given to person is also a demand that is willing to meet and dialogue with his resembling. In this context, though, we see the Church, sign and instrument of salvation, and we expect its renewal for approaching increasingly the divine plan to attract to himself all the humanity. It also intends to understand the Church's mission in the plural society resulting of the modernity and post modernity, where multiple cultural and religious offerings seem to relativize the value and action of the Church. Based on that proposing to men the Church as promoting of universal fraternity acting through ecumenical and interreligious dialogue testimony. And still relate religious pluralism with a possible ecumenical ecclesiology, as well as religiousness with theology, all this in view of what the Catholic Church in Latin America, particularly in Brazil, understands by ecumenism and interreligious dialogue. Finally, the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council emphasized the Church's functionality in favor of men, and also recognized that God loves all men without distinction, and wants everyone participate in the complete happiness of his Kingdom. Therefore the Church has a goal to proclaim the universality of salvation, and put it at disposal, it means, not restrict the salvation only those who believe in Christ and entered the Catholic Church