This book examines the Church s communicative practices prior to the convening of the Second Vatican Council and after, focusing particularly on the Church s understanding of -dialogue-. By developing the paradigm of Praxis Religious Dialogue, this book, through the dialogical philosophy of Martin Buber, the incarnational ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, and the theologico-anthropological process of cognition of Bernard Lonergan, offers a new form of dialogue for the Church. This new model of dialogue is embedded in the process of aggiornamento that served as instrumentum...