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Re: Tolerance (was: THE WORLD OF THE JINN)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 8:54
Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> > Well, (traditional) Christianity wouldn´t expect Muslims getting to > > heaven. > > Eh? > "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in > the > first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith > of > Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's > judge > on the last day." > Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 841. > > I should, perhaps, make clear that the preceding paragraph has talked of > the > Jews and considered that "The Jewish faith........is already a response to > God's revelation in the Old Covenant". Thus the "also" in the first line > above > is to be understood as 'others besides Christians & Jews'; and the first > place > amongst others are the Muslims. > > I was under the impression that only conservative fundamentalist & some > cults > took such an exclusive view of Heaven as Andreas suggests. I would truly > be sad > to learn otherwise.
I apparently fell in the common trap of assuming what's true in my neck of the woods is true everywhere. The Protestant churches in Sweden that I am familiar with, or at least their more traditionally minded members, would hold that only those who have never heard the Gospel have a chance of entering Heaven without having accepted Jesus Christ as their personal saviour. That would exclude most Jews and at least a big chunk of all Muslims. May I ask, tho, how long-standing these parts of the Catholic Catechism are? It strikes me as, well, a bit 20th century. Andreas

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