The question of universal salvation has a starting point, even from a historical perspective, at the metaphysical level, because philosophy sought and proposed salvation. The essential question is what salvation? In the passage from the Old Testament to the New Testament we see a universalisation of that salvation, which is based on the identification between Jesus and the Creator. The Fathers of the Church explored this tension, developing the shift from Logos-theology to salvation in Christ. In the Middle Ages, the confrontation between the three monotheisms and the philosophical instance lead to a confrontation between the Franciscan and the Dominican school. The dialectical tension between creation and salvation introduced by the Reformation had direct consequences on the question, which will explode first with the discovery of America, then with the Enlightenment and the numerous scientific and phenomenological data provided by positivism. This led to a rebirth of theological thought with the “ressourcement” that began in the 19th century and flourished in the 20th. Hence the question of the relationship between non-Christian religions and salvation run through the confrontation between Rahner and Balthasar, up to the genitive theologies, the postmodern critique of the logos and the trend towards post-humanism.
06 November 2022
Can God Work Through Other Religions?
Lecture Number Two in Grace & Nature: Contemporary Controversies, with Fr Giulio Maspero, Professor, Faculty of Theology, Pontifical University of Holy Cross (Rome), Full Membe, Pontifical Academy of Theology.
The question of universal salvation has a starting point, even from a historical perspective, at the metaphysical level, because philosophy sought and proposed salvation. The essential question is what salvation? In the passage from the Old Testament to the New Testament we see a universalisation of that salvation, which is based on the identification between Jesus and the Creator. The Fathers of the Church explored this tension, developing the shift from Logos-theology to salvation in Christ. In the Middle Ages, the confrontation between the three monotheisms and the philosophical instance lead to a confrontation between the Franciscan and the Dominican school. The dialectical tension between creation and salvation introduced by the Reformation had direct consequences on the question, which will explode first with the discovery of America, then with the Enlightenment and the numerous scientific and phenomenological data provided by positivism. This led to a rebirth of theological thought with the “ressourcement” that began in the 19th century and flourished in the 20th. Hence the question of the relationship between non-Christian religions and salvation run through the confrontation between Rahner and Balthasar, up to the genitive theologies, the postmodern critique of the logos and the trend towards post-humanism.
The question of universal salvation has a starting point, even from a historical perspective, at the metaphysical level, because philosophy sought and proposed salvation. The essential question is what salvation? In the passage from the Old Testament to the New Testament we see a universalisation of that salvation, which is based on the identification between Jesus and the Creator. The Fathers of the Church explored this tension, developing the shift from Logos-theology to salvation in Christ. In the Middle Ages, the confrontation between the three monotheisms and the philosophical instance lead to a confrontation between the Franciscan and the Dominican school. The dialectical tension between creation and salvation introduced by the Reformation had direct consequences on the question, which will explode first with the discovery of America, then with the Enlightenment and the numerous scientific and phenomenological data provided by positivism. This led to a rebirth of theological thought with the “ressourcement” that began in the 19th century and flourished in the 20th. Hence the question of the relationship between non-Christian religions and salvation run through the confrontation between Rahner and Balthasar, up to the genitive theologies, the postmodern critique of the logos and the trend towards post-humanism.
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