[1] The Decrees of General Congregation Thirty Four, Decree 1.1.3 found on www. Society of Jesus USA.org or from a special edition of National Jesuit News April, 1995 I cite the relevant paragraph# of the document on Inter-Religious Dialogue.

[2] Judith Berling, Understanding Other Religious Worlds: A Guide for Inter-Religious Education (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2004) p. 3.

[3] Cf. Roger Haight, Jesus Symbol of God ( Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1999; Jacques Dupuis, Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1997).

[4] Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997).

[5] Hans Kung, Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic (New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1991).

[6] Kwak Pui Lan, " Interfaith Encounter" in Arthur Holder, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality (Malden, Mass: Basil Blackwell, 2005) p. 537.

[7] Diana Eck, A New Religious America: How a 'Christian Country' Has Now Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2001) p. 24.

[8] Eck, A New Religious America p. 24—italics mine.

[9] Robert Wuthnow, American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to be a Better Nation Fall Short (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006) p. 177. See also, Stephen Prothero, Religious Literacy (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2007).

[10] cited in Kwak Pui Lan, "Interfaith Encounter" p. 538.

[11] James Fredericks, Faith Among Faiths: Christian Theology and Non-Christian Religions (New York: Paulist Press, 1999); Buddhists and Christians : Through Comparative Theology to Solidarity (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2004 (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2004).

[12] Karl Rahner, "Concerning the Relationship Between Nature and Grace" in Theological Investigations 1 (Baltimore: Helicon, 1961) pp.297-317; "Christianity and the Non-Christian Religions" in Theological Investigations 5 (Baltimore: Helicon, 1966) pp. 115-34; "Observations on the Problem of the Anonymous Christian" in Theological Investigations 14 (New York: Seabury, 1976) pp. 280-98.

[13] James Fredericks, "The Catholic Church and Other Religious Paths: Rejecting Nothing that is True and Holy", Theological Studies 64 (2003), p.243, 253.

[14] John Hick and Paul Knitter, The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).

[15] John Hick, The Myth of God Incarnate ( Philadelphia: Westminster, 1977); John Hick, An Interpretation of Religion: The Challenge of Other Religions (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989).

[16] Fredericks, "The Catholic Church and Other Religious Paths" p. 251.

[17] Encyclicals and allocutions as well as decrees of Vatican dicasteries can be found at the Vatican web site. Doing Theology in Asia Today and other FABC papers can be found at www.ucanewsthai.com

[18] Jean Danielou, The Salvation of the Nations (South Bend, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1962) p. 8.

[19] Rahner, " Christianity and the Non-Christian Religions", p. 128.

[20] Found in Inter-Religious Dialogue: The Official Teaching of the Catholic Church (1963-1995) , ed. Francesco Gioia (Boston, Pauline, 1994) no. 572.

[21] Cited in Peter Phan, "Reception or Subversion of Vatican II By the Asian Churches" in the AustralianEJournal of Theology no. 6, Feb., 2006.

[22] I have been helped by an article by Edmund Chia F.S.C., "FABC's 'Response' to Dominus Jesus" first published in Jeedvadhara: A Journal of Christian Interpretation India (May, 2001) and by Peter N.V.Hai, "Fides Quaerens Dialogum Theological Methodologies of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences" in Australian Ejournal of Theology Oct. 2006, Issue 8.

[23] Francis Clooney, "The Link Between Inter-Religious Dialogue and Work for Justice" in In All Things: A Jesuit Journal of the Social Apostolate November 2000 p.4.

[24] Clooney, "The Link Between Inter-Religious Dialogue and Work for Justice" p. 4.