"Narrow" And "Broad" Exclusivism Flashcards
Some Christians have a narrowly ? view, holding that salvation’s available only to people who belong to their own particular denomination within Christianity.
Exclusivism.
Augustine and Calvin took narrow ? views, believing and teaching that God elects through grace only a small number of Christians for heaven, so that simply belonging to the Christian religion and adopting Christian beliefs isn’t a guarantee of salvation. God chooses whom he’ll save and people can’t force God’s choice.
Exclusivist.
Some Catholics take the view that salvation’s only for those who are baptised into the Catholic Church and regularly receive the ? The Church still teaches this (“extra ecclesiam nulla salus” means “there’s no salvation outside the Church”).
Eucharist.
? ? led to a more outward-looking Catholicism view views that weren’t as narrowly exclusivist as before.
Vatican II.
Within Christian exclusivism is the broader view holding that all people who accept Christ through faith are saved, regardless of the kind of Church to which they belong or the style or ? they prefer.
Worship.
Some exclusivists hold that truth can be found in other religions, but it’s only partial truth, which isn’t enough for ?
Salvation.
Gavin ? divides exclusivists into two groups: restrictive-access exclusivists (those who follow a similar view to John Calvin and who hold that salvation’s only for those who hear and respond to the Gospel during their earthly lives) and universal-access exclusivists (those who hold that Christ’s salvation’s offered to all and that it’s the will of God that everyone should come to love him, drawing attention to the possibility of ? after death that is part of the concept of ?).
D’Costa.
Salvation.
Purgatory.
“God our saviour…wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (1 ? 2:3-6).
Timothy.
