Sentences with phrase «unique means of salvation»

The gospel of John in a number of different passages attributes to Christ claims to be the unique means of salvation.

Baptism was considered essential for salvation, and the Church was regarded as the unique means of salvation.

Evangelical Catholicism proclaims the great gift of friendship with Jesus Christ, not as one attractive possibility in a supermarket of spiritualities, but as the God - given and unique means of salvation for everyone.

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While Christ is the unique mediator of salvation for all humanity, the Church of Jesus Christ «subsists in» and is most fully and rightly ordered in the Catholic Church, meaning the Church governed by the bishops in communion with the Bishop of Rome, the successor of Peter.

The statement says that the book is incompatible with Catholic doctrine on three crucial scores: Jesus Christ as the unique and universal Savior of all; the salvific character of non-Christian religions; and the Church as the ordinary means of salvation.

I prefer to avoid the word «unique,» with its several shades of meaning, but if it is to be used I wish to affirm the uniqueness of the whole event Jesus Christ, the whole Judeo - Christian «salvation - history,» as the supreme revelation and enactment of God's redeeming love: a unique event, with a unique effect.

Surely persons may navigate from within any tradition toward the salvation Christians seek, but those traditions are ordinarily and primarily means of attaining their own unique ends, not salvation.