This all makes me realize all the more how the EENS dogma is, in a sense, the most important one of them all, because once you thow it out of the table, everything else crumbles and that is the reason they can do all these things in the first place.
If there is salvation outside the Church, then you can have a "common understanding" on the other dogmas like the Trinity and the Incarnation and then that's good enough and they don't have to renounce their errors or submit to the Church anymore.
Well said Pelele!
Fr. Wathen puts it like this:
The Doctrine of Exclusive Salvation is described as fundamental or "foundational" to Catholic theology. It is called the "Dogma of Faith," because, of a truth, unless a person accepts it in all its momentous absoluteness, he really does not accept the Catholic Faith, howsoever he protests that he does. Conversely, he who dilutes this doctrine to any degree, so radically distorts the Faith that he renders it null and void, and his own faith in the bargain. For he who denies this doctrine makes Catholicity hardly more than a nicety, as if membership in the Church were like the first-class compartment on a commercial airliner, in which the majority of others will arrive at the same destination, really none the worse for their second-class transport.
Topic: Martin Luther - "Witness to Jesus Christ" (Read 1274 times)