On Tolerance - Sketch of a Christian Interpretation

Author(s): Ioan Chirila
Keywords: religious tolerance, Christian faith, anthropos liturgos, Transylvania, civil tolerance, Orthodox, Greek-Catholic, homo tolerans
Journal: Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
Year: 2002
Full text: http://www.jsri.ro/old/html%20version/index/no_3/ioan_chirila-articol.htm
Publisher: Seminar for the Interdisciplinary Research of Reli
Abstract: The aim of the article is to provide a Christian interpretation to the concept of tolerance. The idea of tolerance is strongly related to the religion revealed by Jesus Christ. Moreover, Christianity is a religion that opens through love, thus tolerant.Religious tolerance in our era should be examined, as it is pointed out in the article, strarting from a reconsideration of the term of "Christian Church". The consensus over these matters would generate a genuine ecclesiastic co-citizenship and place the human person within the completeness of an anthropos liturgos.