First Things RSS Feed - Gavin D’Costa https://www.firstthings.com/author/gavin-dcosta en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:55:01 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/gavin-dcosta 60 Remembering John Hick https://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/05/remembering-john-hick https://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/05/remembering-john-hick Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400 Explain, John Hick once asked me in an undergraduate class, the traditional axiom that my church holds, “There is no salvation outside the Church.” He argued that Catholics officially maintain this teaching while actually saying the opposite because they cannot come to terms with the reality that goodness, truth, and holiness are to be found in other religions. They hold that Christ is the source of all salvation and the Church the means of salvation and then admit that people are saved without Christ and outside the Church.

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