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Will Many Be Saved?

Will Many Be Saved?. World Religions: Theological Synthesis Fr. Llane Briese. From a Catholic point of view, can we affirm the presence of God in the experience of other world religions?. Theological Question.

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Will Many Be Saved?

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  1. Will Many Be Saved? World Religions: Theological Synthesis Fr. Llane Briese

  2. From a Catholic point of view, can we affirm the presence of God in the experience of other world religions? Theological Question

  3. Luke 13:22 He passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. 23 Someone asked him, "Lord, will only a few people be saved?" He answered them, 24 "Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough. 25 After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then will you stand outside knocking and saying, 'Lord, open the door for us.' He will say to you in reply, 'I do not know where you are from.' 26 And you will say, 'We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets.' 27 Then he will say to you, 'I do not know where [you] are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers!' 28 And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves cast out. 29 And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the kingdom of God. 30 For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last." Luke 13:22-30

  4. Acts 17:21 Now all the Athenians as well as the foreigners residing there used their time for nothing else but telling or hearing something new. 22 Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said: "You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious. 23 For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God.' What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything. 26 He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions, 27 so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us. 28 For 'In him we live and move and have our being,' as even some of your poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.' Acts 17:21-28

  5. Romans 1:19 For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. 20 Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; 21 for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22 While claiming to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes. 24 Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Romans 1:19-25

  6. NAB John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. • Extra ecclesiamnullasalus(“Outside the Church, no salvation.”) • Question: “But what of all of the sincere people who are not Christians? Can they be saved?” A Tension

  7. Exclusivist (ecclesio-centric) • Inclusivist (Christo-centric) • Pluralist (theo-centric) Three Schools of Thought

  8. Positions Rejected: • Relativism (4) • Limitations of Christ as the Redeemer (6) • Confounding Theological Faith (which is based on an encounter with Christ) and belief (which is based on experience) (7) • Confounding the de iureinspired character of Scripture with the de facto inspiring character of the texts of other world religions (8) • Arguing that Jesus is one Savior among many (9) • Positing multiple economies of salvation (10) • Separation of the work of the Holy Spirit and that of Christ (12) Dominus Iesus (CDF, 2000)

  9. Jean Daniélou, S.J. (exclusivist) • Karl Rahner, S.J. (inclusivist) • Gerald O’Collins, S.J. (inclusivist)—see optional homework assignment Proposals

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