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THEOLOGICA 2021 – Vol. 11, No. 1
Pag. 61–81
FAITH EMBODIED IN ATTITUDES: ETHICS OF DIALOGUE AND BROTHERHOOD OF ALL PEOPLE IN THE ‘DOCUMENT ON HUMAN FRATERNITY FOR WORLD PEACE AND LIVING TOGETHER’ IN ABU DHABI AND THE ENCYCLICAL FRATELLI TUTTI 1 D E N I S A Č E R V E N K O VÁ , P E T R V I Z I N A
ABSTRACT This text is concerned with the ethical approach of inter-faith relations and the dialogue of culture in two documents of Pope Francis: ‘On Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together’ and the encyclical Fratelli Tutti. This ethical approach refers to God the Creator of all and the call to brotherhood of all human beings and refers to faith as a response to Revelation. Faith also forms ethical approaches for interreligious dialogue. Pope Francis’ approach in the documents is that the theological truth and values of religious traditions are embodied in attitudes of social friendship. Francis challenges us to build a specific environment that he calls a ‘new culture of dialogue’, having frequently called for the growth of a culture of encounter that is capable of transcending political and social barriers and encourages creating a specific culture of social and ‘political love’. Keywords Pope Francis; Interreligious dialogue; Ethics of dialogue; Dialogue of cultures; Fraternity; Theology of religions; Fratelli tutti; Document on Human Fraternity DOI: 10.14712/23363398.2021.4
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efore approaching the topic of the ethical principles of inter-faith dialogue in the ‘Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together’2 and the dialogue of cultures in Fratelli 1
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This work has been supported by Charles University Research Centre programme No. 204052. See Pope Francis and Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, ‘Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together’ (4th February 2019), available at https://bit.ly/3hyvw78, accessed 4 March 2021. Further referenced as ‘Pope Francis and Ahmad Al-Tayyeb:
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