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Is Christian Salvation Individual or Social? Discussing Catholicism's Fundamental Stand

Is Christian Salvation Individual or Social? Discussing Catholicism's Fundamental Stand

Released Monday, 10th June 2024
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Is Christian Salvation Individual or Social? Discussing Catholicism's Fundamental Stand

Is Christian Salvation Individual or Social? Discussing Catholicism's Fundamental Stand

Is Christian Salvation Individual or Social? Discussing Catholicism's Fundamental Stand

Is Christian Salvation Individual or Social? Discussing Catholicism's Fundamental Stand

Monday, 10th June 2024
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The 1930s saw a frequent objection made to Christianity: since salvation is personal, Christianity would easily pave the way for individualism, where every Christian looks for his own happiness, forgetting all others. Henri de Lubac wrote "Catholicism" (1937) to reply to this objection by making the point of "social Catholicism." However, few years later, this concept, though well grounded in the Church Fathers, became ideologically ridden, so as to affirm that Faith and its celebration were merely social. What about today? Whilst it seems very odd to preach about saving one's soul, a 'communal salvation' has led to prioritise social issues, such as building up a more human society and ecology (detached from Christ). A strong Marxist component is now facing the Church from within. What is then salvation? The unity and the trinity of the Triune God should be reflected in this discorse. Saving souls is still the supreme law of the Church.

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