Apparently we are allowed to dialogue with members of other faith traditions, although we have nothing to learn in matters of doctrine. We might not know the questions but we already have the answer. Dialogue is teaching us to give up dominating patriarchal modes and free ourselves for liberation, to witness not through invading the other s space but through seeking together. Experience teaches that in the dialogue of life and action we are no longer providers but advocates, not instructors but facilitators, not centres of power but vulnerable persons. However, Dominus Iesus is devoid of the wonder and unpredictability of a living faith.
Mystery is absent.
The declaration has tried to lock God up in a firmly bolted tabernacle of propositions. Rome is reasserting a single language, a single Graeco-Latin discourse defined and defended by a monarchical papacy. While God is present outside the Church, it is apparently a divine presence without a divine revelation. Rome carries the tradition, it is left to the rest of us to translate and explain. Rome is the sole harbinger of absolute truth all else is at best appendage, at worst error.