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What is the Difference Between Being Redeemed and Being Saved?

Question:

Karl Keating stated in his book Catholicism and Fundamentalism that we are all "redeemed" but we are not all "saved." What is the difference between the two?

Answer:

Basically, redemption is collective, while salvation is individual. Christ redeemed humanity collectively from slavery to sin and from the debt of punishment that mankind, as a whole, owed due to sin. Every person, Christian or non-Christian, is redeemed because he is a member of the human race. Salvation is the application of redemption to individuals. A person can choose to reject the graces won for him by Christ even though he has been redeemed.

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