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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...

This was indeed the council fathers’ vision when they insisted that “God is fully glorified only when all men live consciously in the faith of Christ. This is the goal of all missionary activity.”35 Cardinal George also quotes and comments on a speech of Cardinal Suenens, who was one of the four moderators of the Council and played a very significant role in the leadership of the entire Council, to support the same point regarding the intentions of the Council fathers in AG. “Our aim is not to confirm
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