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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...

evangelization is still often more a slogan or a “flavor” than a regular part of the baptized Catholic’s way of life.16 One reason why evangelization may be stymied is that there seems to be in the minds of many Catholics, and other Christians as well, a lack of conviction that being a Christian is really necessary in order to be saved. If it is not really necessary to become a Christian in order to be saved, why bother to evangelize? The reasons often given
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