Pope John Paul II prohibited a theology of religions and it is being taught at the Angelicum University.

dP 3031 A Dialogical Theology of Religions 3 ECTS 

The document Christianity and the world religions (1997; n.7) of the International Theological Commission provides a useful outline for a theology of religions: “In the first place Christianity will have to try to understand and evaluate itself in the context of a plurality of religions; it will have to think, specifically, about the truth and the universality to which it lays claim. In the second place it will have to seek the meaning, function and specific value of religions in the overall history of salvation. Finally Christian theology will have to study and examine religions themselves, with their very specific contents, and confront them with the contents of the Christian Faith. For that reason it is necessary to establish criteria which will permit a critical discussion of this material and a hermeneutics for interpreting it.”

 BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. DUPUIS, Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism, Maryknoll ,NY: Orbis 1999; F. GIOIA (ed.), Interreligious Dialogue. The Official Teaching of the Catholic Church, Boston: Pauline Books 2006; V.-M. KÄRKKÄINEN, An Introduction to the Theology of Religions, Downers Grove: InterVarsity 2003; P. F. KNITTER, Introducing Theologies of Religions, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis 2002; G. O’COLLINS, The Second Vatican Council on Other Religions, Oxford: OUP 2013. M. FUSS

TE 2545 Introduction to the World’s Great Religions. 3 ECTS

 In line with the teaching of Vatican Council II that the Church “rejects nothing of what is true and holy in the religions” (Nostra aetate 2) the course offers a concise presentation of some of the major religious traditions of our contemporary world. Following an initial exploration of the religious phenomenon in general, attention will be focused on the basic elements of Indian religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism, Far Eastern traditions (Confucianism, Taoism and Shinto), Islam as well as on the emerging New Age spirituality in Western culture that indicates a changing religious landscape to which theology has to pay attention.

 BIBLIOGRAPHY: C. E. FARHADIAN, Introducing World Religions, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2015; J. R. HINNELLS (ed.), A New Handbook of Living Religions, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997; J. R. HINNELLS (ed.), The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religions, Routledge, Abingdon, 2010; I. MARKHAM (ed.), A World Religions Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996; A. SHARMA (ed.), Our Religions, New York: HarperCollins 1993

 M. FUSS 

Fr.Michael Fuss does not teach  that Vatican Council II , Ad Gentes 7  says all need faith and baptism for salvation and so the Buddhists and Hindus are on the way to Hell.

He also does not teach that Nostra Aetate 2 does not contradict Ad Gentes 7 and neither the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as it was interpreted by the Jesuits in the Middle Ages.

So there cannot be a theology of religions since the non Christians and the non Catholics outside the Church are on the way to Hell.-Lionel Andrades

Fr. Michael Fuss, Ph.D.
FacultyAdjunct Professor of Mission Studies &
History of Religions with emphasis 
on Buddhism and New Religious Movements of the Faculty of Theology.
Ph. D. Pontifical Gregorian University (1981)

Faculty of Social Sciences
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas
Largo Angelicum 1
Rome, Italy 00184Ph. +39 06.67.02.402
E-mail:fass@pust.it

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