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    God's salvific work, on exclusivist accounts from Barth t... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Adherents of non-Christian religions can enter God's presence even without awareness of Jesus's redemptive acts.

    God's salvific work, on exclusivist accounts from Barth to contemporary Reformed theology, is necessarily particular and resists abstraction from its Christological form.

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    • 1.Salvation historically occurs through Christ's incarnation, death, and resurrection—concrete events that cannot be generalized into abstract principles.
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    • 2.God's nature and will are revealed decisively in Christ; abstracting from Christology risks substituting human philosophy for divine self-disclosure.
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    • 3.Particular covenant history (Israel, church) demonstrates God works through specific communities, not universal metaphysical categories.
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    • 1.Confining salvation to explicit Christ-knowledge seems to contradict God's justice toward those with no historical access to Christian revelation.
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    • 2.Abstract principles like divine love and redemptive intent can be biblically grounded without requiring Christological exclusivism as necessary.
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    • 3.The claim conflates Christological *centrality* with soteriological *exclusivity*—God could prioritize Christ while extending salvation more broadly.
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