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The Possibility of Salvation Among the Unevangelised: An Analysis of Inclusivism in Recent Evangelical Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

For evangelical theologians the fate of the unevangelized impinges upon fundamental tenets of evangelical identity. The position known as inclusivism, defined by the belief that the unevangelized can be ontologically saved by Christ whilst being epistemologically unaware of him, has been defended most vigorously by the Canadian evangelical Clark H. Pinnock. Through a detailed analysis and...

missionary activity.72 Pinnock sees the dilemma: “It pits access against urgency. If we say there is equal access to salvation for all, including the un-evangelised, we will be charged with eliminating the urgency of mission. But if we preserve the urgency, people will protest that this means millions will go to hell without any chance to avoid it.”73 Both these issues of biblical tension and missionary activity are important reasons why debate on this issue has been so fierce within evangelicalism
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