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    Spe salvi (English: "Saved in Hope"), referencing the Latin phrase from Romans 8:24, Spe salvi facti sumus ("in hope we were saved"), is the second encyclical...
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    wrote three encyclicals: Deus caritas est (Latin for "God is Love"), Spe salvi ("Saved by Hope"), and Caritas in veritate ("Love in Truth"). In his first...
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    recognized with this title. In 2007 Pope Benedict XVI, in his encyclical Spe Salvi, called Maximus the Confessor "the great Greek Doctor of the Church",...
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    love itself cleanses it from the residue of sin." In his 2007 encyclical Spe salvi, Pope Benedict XVI, referring to the words of Paul the Apostle in 1 Corinthians...
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    Francisco: Ignatius Press. 2008 [2005]. ISBN 978-1-58617-179-7. Saved in Hope: Spe Salvi. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. 2008 [2007]. ISBN 978-1-58617-251-0. The...
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    lives. Pope Benedict XVI refers to this letter in his encyclical letter, Spe salvi, highlighting the power of Christianity as power of the transformation...
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    on 30 November 2007, in the beginning of his second encyclical letter Spe Salvi ("In Hope We Were Saved"), relates her life story as an outstanding example...
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    faith) were treated in two successive encyclicals, one signed by Benedict (Spe Salvi) and one written substantially by him but signed by his successor Pope...
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    Benedict XVI, Encyclical Letter Spe salvi Vatican November 30, 2007 Spe Salvi, 4 Spe Salvi 4 Spe Salvi, 2 Spe Salvi 35 Spe Salvi 37 Sacramentum Caritatis: Post-Synodal...
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    20th century. Pope Benedict XVI cited the book in the 2007 encyclical Spe Salvi. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had read Dostoevsky since his youth and considered...
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