Ways of Salvation and the Way of Salvation

Abstract: Every religion offers salvation or liberation. Since the time of Cyprian of Carthage, the Catholic Church held the exclusive Christian claim that there is no salvation outside the Church (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). However, at the Vatican II there was a re-visioning and a renewed understanding of salvation that that went beyond absolute exclusivism to a recognition of the role of other religions in the economy of salvation. Based on the teachings of Vatican II, the author shows that in Jesus Christ, the incarnation of God’s Communion within the Trinity as well as God’s communion with humans and their world all authentic ways of salvation find their uniqueness and legitimate space distinct but not separate from Christ, the Way! Extra communionis nulla salus – Outside Communion no salvation