Will Many Be Saved?
What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization
Published on 20. August 2012
302 pages
978-1-4674-3632-8 (ISBN)
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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 discussion is also relevant to the wider debate happening in many churches around the world. In particular, Martin analyzes the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, the document from the Second Vatican Council that directly relates to this question. Contrary to popular opinion, Martin argues that according to this text, the conditions under which people who have not heard the gospel can be saved are very often, in fact, not fulfilled, with strong implications for evangelization.
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Will Many Be Saved?
What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization
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Ralph Martin, S.T.D., is the Director of Graduate TheologyPrograms in the New Evangelization at Sacred HeartSeminary in Detroit, President of Renewal Ministries, and aConsultor to the Pontifical Council for the NewEvangelization.,
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- I. Vatican II and the Priority of Evangelization
- The Purpose of Vatican II
- A Focus on Evangelization
- Evangelization: What Is Holding It Back?
- II. Lumen gentium 16: Initial Observations
- The Salvation of Non-Christians: The Council's Teaching
- The Related Council Texts
- The Council Historians: LG 16 Was Relatively Noncontroversial
- Some Early Concerns about Theological Currents
- III. Lumen gentium 16: The Doctrinal Development
- Lumen gentium 14: Fully Incorporated Members of the Church
- Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
- The Age of Discovery and Theological Ferment
- Conclusion
- Salvation Optimism?
- IV. The Scriptural Foundations of Lumen gentium 16
- Romans: The Overall Context
- Romans 1:14-17
- Romans 1:18
- Romans 1:19-20
- Romans 1:21-23
- Romans 1:24-25
- Romans 1:26-27
- Romans 1:28-31
- Romans 1:32
- Romans 2: The Rhetorical Trap
- Romans 3: All Have Sinned
- Mark 16:14-16
- Preliminary Conclusions and Some Additional Questions: Implications for the New Evangelization
- V. Rahner and "Anonymous Christians"
- The Supernatural Existential
- The Conditions under Which the Salvation of Non-Christians May Be Possible
- Rahner's Assessment of the Probability of the Salvation of Non-Christians
- Assessing the Basis of Rahner's Theory
- Assessing Pastoral Implications for Evangelization
- Preliminary Conclusions
- Summary Conclusions
- VI. Balthasar: Dare We Hope That All Be Saved?
- An Overview of Balthasar's Argument
- Balthasar's Pastoral Concern
- The Challenge of Scripture and Tradition
- Balthasar's Approach to Scripture
- Specific Texts: The Judgment Texts
- Specific Texts: The Universal Salvation Texts
- Balthasar's Rejection of the Traditional Theological Synthesis
- The Case of the Angels
- Balthasar, the Fathers, and the Saints
- The Mystics
- The Theological Solution of the Tradition
- An Analysis of "Hope" in Balthasar's Argument
- Do We Know That Anyone Is in Hell?
- Some Evaluations
- Assessing Balthasar's Pastoral Concerns
- VII. The Pastoral Strategy of Vatican II: Time for an Adjustment?
- The Pastoral Strategy of Vatican II
- An Adjustment in Pastoral Strategy Is Needed
- The Need to Recover the Boldness of Apostolic Preaching
- An Unwise Silence Should End
- Appendix I: Lumen gentium 16
- Latin Text
- English Text
- Appendix II: Relatio on Lumen gentium 16
- Latin Text
- English Text
- Appendix III: Balthasar's Criticism of Rahner
- Notes
- Notes to Chapter I
- Notes to Chapter II
- Notes to Chapter III
- Notes to Chapter IV
- Notes to Chapter V
- Notes to Chapter VI
- Notes to Chapter VII
- Notes to Appendix I
- Notes to Appendix III
- Select Bibliography
- Magisterial Documents
- Books
- Articles and Essays in Books
- Index
