Extra ecclesiam nulla salus : percurso histórico e atualidade do axioma

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the controversial extra ecclesiam nulla salus ecclesiological axiom. Many statements are made about the axiom that is being studied, however, one can see that some of these statements are illegitimate. By studying it, one can realize that it is an axiom which, when denied or mistakenly understood, denies the fundamental truths of the Church of Jesus Christ. At the risk of being interpreted in order to deny the fundamental truths of the Catholic faith, even inside the Church. Thus, from a historical reconstruction, through its theological reality and, finally, aiming its update by hermeneutical paths, we tried to read the axiom, through its contextualization and a faithful approach to the Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium, what it really says and what it does not say.