Extra ecclesiam nulla salus w ewangelicyzmie

The issue of salvation is at the heart of Protestantism. Jesus Christ – God’s Son, true God, and true man is the Savior of all humankind. The traditional Protestant (Evangelical) theology, in both Lutheran and Calvinist confessional forms, regarding the exclusive salvation of the Church was in line with the teaching of the ancient Church. The denominational books of Lutheranism, especially the Augsburg Confession, showed that Lutheran theology in the science of salvation is biblical and it is in line with the teaching of the first councils of the indivisible Church. The teaching of the Evangelical-Reformed tradition followed in the same direction. The Heidelberg Catechism discusses in detail the Apostolic Creed, deriving from it the basic concepts of both soteriology and ecclesiology. In the opus magnum of John Calvin - Institutio, we find a direct reference to the concept of St. Cyprian proclaiming that there is no salvation outside the Church. With the emergence of the Neoprotestantism in evangelical theology and spirituality (Schleiermacher), the question of the exclusivity of the Church in the process of salvation ceased to be obvious.