No Salvation Outside the Poor Douglass "Lamenting that he sometimes feels

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including The Seven Story Mountain and Peace in the Post-Christian Era

Jeannette Rodriguez-Holguin

University of Toledo

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No Salvation Outside the Poor Douglass "Lamenting that he sometimes feelsThe provocative title of these essays plays on a traditional Catholic saying, "No salvation outside the church." But as Fr. Sobrino notes, salvation has many dimensions, both personal and social, historical and transcendent. Insofar as salvation implies God's response to a world marred by suffering and injustice, then the poor represent an indispensable test, a key to the healing of a sick society. Drawing on the radical hope of Christian faith the