The Salvation of Atheists and Catholic Dogmatic Theology. By Stephen Bullivant
Among the lingering questions left by Vatican II, the salvation of atheists has not attracted much controversy or comment. But the related issue of the salvation of non-Christians has done so, if only through the well-worn terms ‘anonymous Christian’ and ‘anonymous Christianity’. In this study, Bull...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 836-838 |
| Review of: | The salvation of atheists and Catholic dogmatic theology (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012) (Waldron, Stephen)
The salvation of atheists and Catholic dogmatic theology (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012) (Waldron, Stephen) |
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| Summary: | Among the lingering questions left by Vatican II, the salvation of atheists has not attracted much controversy or comment. But the related issue of the salvation of non-Christians has done so, if only through the well-worn terms ‘anonymous Christian’ and ‘anonymous Christianity’. In this study, Bullivant raises the possibility that there is a better way of doing what this concept, commonly attributed to Karl Rahner, does. From the standpoint of Roman Catholic dogmatics, he lays out a potential solution to the problem of how atheists, without even the light that Vatican II attributes to non-Christian religions, may encounter Christ in a salvifically effective manner. This solution is both fully traditional and surprisingly innovative. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt071 |