Summary
Lexicon of fundamental religious terms - Judaism, Christianity, Islam
The characteristic tendencies of the current era include a reawakened interest in religious issues, which coincides with a heightened awareness of the necessity of inter-religious dialogue. Among other things, the need for liberation from the multiple compulsions of a technically managed and science-infused society is articulated in this religious unrest. In religion, people hope to find an authentic and lasting form of freedom. This is based on the fact that man expects religion to fulfill his basic need that cannot be satisfied in any other way, his aspiration for salvation, his longing for transcendence. Because, without a deep relationship with God, a person is alienated from his own truth and therefore ceases to be a "man" in the full sense. Religions that have stamped our history and our culture and from which people in the Western world and in Islamic countries expect an answer to the question about the meaning and purpose of life, about the possibility of mastering the present and thoughtfully planning the future, about the value of the present moment and about the promise for tomorrow as well as about the expectation of an eternal "today" in communion with God and in the fulfillment of humanity, such religions are Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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