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Article: Salvation Outside the Church: Tracing the History of the Catholic Response.
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- Theological Studies
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- March 1, 1993
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Salvation Outside the Church: Tracing the History of the Catholic Response. By Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. New York: Paulist, 1992. Pp. v + 224. $12.95.
The contemporary significance of this book may well lie more in what it conveys on the issue of development of doctrine than in what it says specifically about salvation outside the Church. After all, the doctrine that "there is salvation outside the Church" is peacefully accepted nowadays, but there are plenty of conflicts about development of doctrine.
Sullivan presents the problem of salvation by giving a historical account of discordant positions. On the one hand, there were the papal and conciliar ...