Wolfe Heretic?

Adam Thornton · 16 Jul 2008, 18:17 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:17:35 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wolfe Heretic?
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On Jul 16, 2008, at 1:06 PM, John Watkins wrote:

> Oh, no, I don't think he's in the Mel Gibson camp.  Some of his non- 
> mainstream views seem to be, if anything, on the other side--he  
> apparently gives great salvific power to faith in non-Christian  
> religions, and even to faith in religions with explicitly false or  
> evil gods, and he believes (or says he believes, of course) that  
> pagan gods were real beings but not demons.  So I'd say he's on the  
> broad-minded side of orthodox Catholicism.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.  Is it actually a permitted doctrine in Catholicism  
that faith in non-Christian religions can have salvific power?   
Doesn't that explicitly contradict John 14:6?  Which is *another* of  
what I--brought up in, admittedly, a faith without, to be kind, much  
of a formal intellectual tradition--considered to be one of those  
bedrock passages.

Adam
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