DECLARATION DOMINUS IESUS
By: IZAKOVIC
UPDATED: 09-09-00
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As immediate response to the UN Millennium World Peace Summit, formally aimed at attaining a religious unity, which was held in the New York on August 30, 2000, and which was financed by the CNN owner Ted Turner, on September 5, 2000, Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith held a press conference during which Declaration “Dominus Iesus”, regarding the uniqueness and salvation universality of Jesus Christ and The Catholic Church, was presented.
Conference was led by it’s Perfect, His Eminency, Card. Joseph Ratzinger, with the participation of Mons. Tarcisio Bertone, the Secretary of the same Congregation and Congregation’s consultants, Mons. Fernando Ocariz and Padre Don Angelo Amato.
Main
points of the Declaration are visible in its following excerpts:
….. In the lively contemporary debate on the relationship
between Christianity and the other religions, some Catholic theologians have
argued that all religions may be equally valid ways of salvation. Relativistic
theories have been presented that either deny or view as superseded certain
fundamental truths of the Catholic faith regarding the definitive and complete
character of the revelation of Jesus. …..
…..
Because of this debate, the International Theological Commission published a
document in 1997 entitled Christianity and the World Religions, which
illustrated, with ample biblical references and theological arguments, the lack
of foundation of pluralistic theologies of religions, and which reasserted the
unicity and salvific universality of the mystery of Christ and the Church, as
the source of all salvation both inside and outside Christianity. Given,
however, the rapid spread of the relativistic and pluralistic mentality, the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has intervened with the present
Declaration in order to set forth and clarify certain truths of the faith …..
…..
Against the theory of the limited, incomplete, or imperfect character of the
revelation of Jesus Christ, which would be complementary to that found in other
religions, the Declaration reiterates the teaching of the Catholic faith
regarding the full and complete revelation of the salvific mystery of God in
Jesus Christ. Since Jesus is true God and true man, his words and deeds manifest
the totality and definitiveness of the revelation of the mystery of God, even if
the depth of that mystery remains in itself transcendent and inexhaustible.
Consequently, while admitting that other religions not infrequently reflect a
ray of that Truth which enlightens all men, the Declaration reaffirms that the
designation of inspired texts is reserved for the canonical books of the Old and
New Testaments, because these are inspired by the Holy Spirit, have God as their
author, and teach firmly, faithfully, and without error the truth about God and
human salvation. The Declaration also states that the distinction must be firmly
held between theological faith, which is adherence to the truth revealed by the
One and Triune God, and belief in the other religions, which is religious
experience still in search of the absolute truth and still lacking assent to God
who reveals himself. …..
…..Theories
of a salvific action of God beyond the unique mediation of Christ are contrary
to the Catholic faith.
The
Lord Jesus continues his presence and his work of salvation in the Church and by
means of the Church, which is his body. Just as the head and members of a living
body, though not identical, are inseparable, so too Christ and the Church can
neither be confused nor separated …..
…..
With regard to the many elements of sanctification and truth which exist outside
the structure of the Church, that is to say, in those Churches and ecclesial
communities which are not yet in full communion with the Catholic Church, it
must be stated that they derive their efficacy from the very fullness of grace
and truth entrusted to the Catholic Church …..
…..
With regard to the way in which the salvific grace of God comes to individual
non-Christians, the Second Vatican Council limited itself to the statement that
God bestows it in ways known to himself. …..
….. Furthermore, it cannot be overlooked that other
rituals, insofar as they follow from superstitions or other errors, constitute
an obstacle to salvation. With the coming of the Savior Jesus Christ, God has
willed that the Church founded by him be the instrument of salvation for all
humanity. This truth of faith does not lessen the sincere respect which the
Church has for the religions of the world, but at the same time it rules out, in
a radical way, that mentality of indifferentism characterized by a religious
relativism which leads to the belief that one religion is as good as another. As
demanded by her love for all people, the Church proclaims, and is in duty bound
to proclaim without fail, Christ who is the way, the truth, and the life. In
him, in whom God reconciled all things to himself, men find the fullness of
their religious life. …..
Synthesis of Declaration Dominus Iesus is available at Vatican’s address
Integral text of the same
Declaration (in Italian language only) is posted at
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