On Tolerance - Sketch of a Christian Interpretation

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, starting 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.