Foreign context of 20th century very rapidly as the nostrata documents this is a document it’s a document of the Catholic church but this is very important for all religions because this is the only religion I would say made an official declaration about the inter-religious style the other individual style in 20th
Century other religions are open to dialogue but they didn’t you know really publish a document which could be you know enlightening for all their faithful turning back nostrils number three one it’s talk it talks about the relations between Christians and Muslims it doesn’t deny this past it tastes even
Though it says even though the second paragraph of number three you can find it easily online and the website of the Vatican it says even though there had been so many conflicts and I’m trying to translate the better way let’s put it conflict conflicts and quarrels etc etc and it says this Council
Invites both parts in this case most Christian to forget the past it’s a difficult task because the recent the recent past I would say the last because for the humanity we said reason would be some centuries some to to centuries it had not been the best uh version of uh
The peaceful coexistence we don’t we know that very well the change I will say the change is a result of the tragic event of the last two world wars I would say because all these efforts of dialogue actually started uh this and seeing this idea of brother sister much more uh it existed
Even also like like a parent this is a constitutional level just remember at the end of the 18th century uh in the US and in France when you know the republics uh were born actually one of the ideas was fraternity Brotherhood you know just how to put together the
Scissors as brothers and I didn’t really go I didn’t because we’d be picked up the concept of Brotherhood for eternity we can I mean just uh find so many definitions and political concept sociological content Etc I just try to focus on the religious aspect but the idea of brother even the by the
Socialist person the socialism always offered an idea that you know workers and people uh the the you know the in the labor area who earned their uh you know uh daily income uh working uh daily and just uh Pro using the material touching the materials and they are in a way of
Brothers and sisters we have different uh ideas of uh brother’s brother Sisterhood but for our case this two tragic moments of uh the world wars and pushed especially uh the thinkers visioners the leaders of the the Western World to find I will say that was the Emmanuel kant’s
Dream in a way a Perpetual peace for instance European Union we usually look at the economic part and usually they teach or that was economic uh interests and that’s it’s not really true the whole idea of European Union if you look at this the founding fathers of
European Union they were all really very religious engaged spiritual people and they would like to really develop an idea of uh brotherhoods at least in Europe and let me give an example of how this human tragedy transformed into something uh more tangible just to ReDiscover the Brotherhood to create a Reconciliation
Documents of the Catholic church or so many other Interfaith engagements in the post-war uh Western World in Europe are so much related with the traged or schwa the Holocaust that the the totalitative regime of the 20th century wanted to eliminate the whole uh Jewish people here in Europe
The eye this idea actually one you know the world war finish and then the partners of this I mean Interfaith engagement and they also started making uh interrogation special Catholic Church they did they had been really critical and resistance against this human tragedy and that idea of nostratitis
Just started with a reconciliation with the Jewish people but why I’m just telling this example because one first award Pope John 23rd at the pop between 1958 and 1963 just five years it was kind of the oldest pop but he started the second wrestling Council and he had the vision of
Writing documents about Interfaith engagement when he received after all this human tragedy and people who claimed to be Christians killing Exterminating the Jewish people Etc but he received the first group of Jewish people here in Rome in Vatican he addressed them with a Biblical verse
And which is also which is which can be found in Quran in a similar way he used the language of Joseph the son of Jacob when he Met’s first time his brothers in Egypt because his brothers could not recognize him he was so much change become Minister
Etc and he said I’m Joseph your brother pop John went to church receive these people with this verse he said I’m Joseph your brother I mean he attempted to reconcile with Jewish people through ideal Brotherhood and I the brighter Brotherhood which is based on reconciliation so I think the why it’s
Become so relevant this is my first interpretation because the the the geopolitical context of 20th century urged leaders to find ways in which we don’t really I mean because you know the calculations of economy calculate political calculations uh the Balance power balance of power Etc they really failed and they wanted
To understand how can actually relate people to peaceful coexistence and Reconciliation and I think that was one of the ideas not everyone else as you have already observed still not everyone else is embracing desired yeah but it’s becoming more and more relevant foreign
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