(urth) Wolfe Heretic?

[Jeff Wilson]

Adam Thornton wrote:
> 
> On Jul 16, 2008, at 1:06 PM, John Watkins wrote:
> 
>> Oh, no, I don't think he's in the Mel Gibson camp.  Some of his 
>> non-mainstream views seem to be, if anything, on the other side--he 
>> apparently gives great salvific power to faith in non-Christian 
>> religions, and even to faith in religions with explicitly false or 
>> evil gods, and he believes (or says he believes, of course) that pagan 
>> gods were real beings but not demons.  So I'd say he's on the 
>> broad-minded side of orthodox Catholicism.
> 
> Whoa, whoa, whoa.  Is it actually a permitted doctrine in Catholicism 
> that faith in non-Christian religions can have salvific power?  Doesn't 
> that explicitly contradict John 14:6?  Which is *another* of what 
> I--brought up in, admittedly, a faith without, to be kind, much of a 
> formal intellectual tradition--considered to be one of those bedrock 
> passages.

You can google "anonymous Christianity" and read all about it.

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