No Salvation Outside the Poor Douglass Redemptorist priest Francis X

Redemptorist priest Francis X

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No Salvation Outside the Poor Douglass Redemptorist priest Francis XThe provocative title of these essays plays on a traditional Catholic saying, "No salvation outside the church." But as Fr. Sobrino notes, salvation has many dimensions, both personal and social, historical and transcendent. Insofar as salvation implies God's response to a world marred by suffering and injustice, then the poor represent an indispensable test, a key to the healing of a sick society. Drawing on the radical hope of Christian faith the