As a dogma, theologians teach that many belong to the Church who are out of its visible unity; as a moral truth that to be out of the Church is no personal sin, except to those who sin in being out of it. That is, they will be lost, not because they are geographically out of it, but because they are culpably out of it.
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "As a dogma, theologians teach that many belong to the Church who are out of its visible unity; as a moral truth that to be out of the Church is no personal sin, except to those who sin in being out of it. That is, they will be lost, not because they are geographically out of it, but because they are culpably out of it." in the context of "England and Christendom (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867), p. 95." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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