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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...

footnote here references a text from St. Thomas, ST III, q. 8, a. 3, ad 1: “Those who are unbaptized, though not actually in the Church, are in the Church potentially. And this potentiality is rooted in two things—first and principally, in the power of Christ, which is sufficient for the salvation of the whole human race; secondly, in free-will.” It is clear that this “relatedness” is not actually salvific, but potentially salvific.5 Special mention is made first of the Jews, then of the Muslims,
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