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    It is not the case that Aquinas held in Summa Theologiae that explicit faith in Christ became soteriologically necessary after the Incarnation, collapsing the ontological/epistemic distinction post-revelation.

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    • 1.Aquinas consistently affirmed that God can save those invincibly ignorant of Christ through implicit faith in divine goodness.
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    • 2.The ontological/epistemic distinction remains valid post-Incarnation: Christ's historical presence doesn't eliminate what's unknowable about God.
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    • 3.Aquinas's actual position preserves soteriological universality; collapsing the distinction would make salvation inaccessible to many.
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    • 1.Post-Incarnation, Christ's historical reality makes implicit faith in unknowable divine mercy insufficient for salvation.
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    • 2.Aquinas's natural law theory requires explicit assent to revealed truth once God has made salvation's means publicly manifest.
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    • 3.The collapse of ontological/epistemic distinction reflects that God's actual nature is now historically accessible, not merely speculated.
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