Fundamental Soteriology: On the Fullness of Life (Sacra Doctrina)

Fullness of Life is a basic introduction to the Catholic understanding of salvation.It begins with a presentation of the background against which the teaching on salvation must be situated (the contemporary context of the question of salvation, the positions of other religions, the teaching of the magisterium) (chapter one), and a concise sketch on the history of soteriology (chapter two).The following chapters are a discussion of models for interpreting salvation relating to Christ's death on the cross (chapter three) and the totality of His life (chapter four).These considerations are concluded with a presentation of St.Thomas Aquinas' interpretative proposal (chapter five), which proves to be an apt way to synthesize the discussions presented earlier.The model of salvific mediation eventually turns out to be a higher-order model that allows to close the entire presentation (chapter six).The body of the text is supplemented by appendices that discuss a chosen set of particular proble