Written by two of the Church’s longest-serving and best-informed experts, this important book offers fresh insight into developments in interreligious dialogue between world religions and the Catholic Church. Here readers can see clearly how dialogue has been central to the Church’s attempts to improve understanding and interchange among the world’s religious traditions, particularly during the long pontificate of John Paul II.

The authors not only provide informative, readable accounts of interfaith encounter but reflect on what has been learned in the process, and point out where relations among the world’s great religious ways and practitioners have improved. They also allow the reader to see where interreligious interchange has met problems, pointing to issues that urgently require attention.