title: Many Religions, One Covenant: Israel, the Church, and the World
author: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: German
zlib_text: Many Religions—One Covenant
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Many Religions—  
  One Covenant
  
  
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  Israel, the Church,  
  and the World
  
  
  TRANSLATED BY GRAHAM HARRISON
  
  
  WITH A FOREWORD  
  BY SCOTT HAHN
  
  
  IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Title of the German original:  
  Die Vielfalt der Religionen  
  und der Eine Bund © 1998 Verlag Urfeld GmbH, Hagen
  
  
  Cover photograph:  
  Dome of the Rock and Western Wall
  
  
  © CORBIS / David H. Wells
  
  
  Cover design by Roxanne Mei Lum
  
  
  © 1999 Ignatius Press, San Francisco  
  All rights reserved  
  ISBN 0-89870-753-3 (PB)  
  ISBN 978-1-68149-324-4 (EB)
  
  
  Library of Congress catalogue number 99-73009  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  [Foreword, by Scott Hahn](index_split_005.html#filepos14609)
  
  
  [Preface](index_split_006.html#filepos22717)
  
  
  [I. ISRAEL, THE CHURCH, AND THE WORLD](index_split_007.html#filepos28181)
  
  
  Their Relation and Mission, according to the  
  1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church  
  (Translati