Philippine E-Journals

Do “Non-Christian” Religions Have a Role in God’s Salvific Plan?

Nicole Tilman

Discipline: Missiology

 

Abstract:

As elementary school kids, every year in October, we received in our school the visit of a missionary coming from a faraway place in Africa or Asia, to share with us some stories about their work and adventures in the mission field. They told us how they had been involved in “saving” the African or Asian souls from eternal damnation by baptizing them and receiving them into the Catholic Church, and how they had participated in the establishment of new commissions by erecting new church buildings. Nevertheless, the only thing we heard about other religions, was that they were all “pagan” religions. Since their missionary work was before the internet, it might have been very difficult for these well meaning missionaries to stay updated with the aggiornamento wind blowing through the Church during and after the Second Vatican Council.