An interesting list, for the use of my exclusivist friends.
Below is a list of well known preachers and apologists that have advocated inclusivism. The list demonstrates that inclusivism is not a modern innovation. Inclusivists hold that the only way to be saved is through Jesus Christ, but that it is also possible to be justified through Christ without explicit or complete knowledge of who he is. Inclusivism is contrasted with restritivism. Restrictivists believe that people without knowledge of Christ are damned by necessity.
Justin Martyr, 103–165: “We have been taught that Christ is the first-born of God, and we have declared above that He is the Word of whom every race of men were partakers; and those who lived reasonably are Christians, even though they have been thought atheists; as, among the Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus, and men like them; and among the barbarians, Abraham, and Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael, and Elias, and many others…” (
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