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Will Many Be Saved?: What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization is unavailable, but you can change that!

The question of whether and how people who have not had the chance to hear the gospel can be saved goes back to the beginnings of Christian reflection. It has also become a much-debated topic in current theology. In Will Many Be Saved? Ralph Martin focuses primarily on the history of debate and the development of responses to this question within the Roman Catholic Church, but much of Martin’s...

the missionary effort of the Church. AG strongly affirms the need to continue preaching the gospel, but the fundamental teaching about why this still makes sense is actually contained in LG 16. We must return to LG 16c to see why the missionary mandate is not undermined by this possibility. After listing the conditions under which it might be possible for non-Christians to be saved without knowing the gospel, it comments on the unlikelihood in many cases of these conditions being met. But very often,
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