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For Catholics (and for all Christians, really) Christology and Soteriology are necessarily linked. What you believe about who Jesus is will affect what you believe about how salvation works.
So check out Roch Kereszty's Jesus Christ: Fundamentals of Christology. He has chapters on redemption in there and certainly read them but it's also worth reading the chapter on the Christology of the fathers.
In the early church Christological controversies what was at stake in opposing the idea that Jesus was a created divine being (Arianism) or that he wasn't fully human (apollinarianism, monophysitism, monoenergism, and finally monothelitism) was the very coherence of salvation. If Jesus isn't fully God then he's just another creature and how could he save us? If Jesus isn't fully human, if he did not assume and lift up our humanity, then how can we in our humanity be saved?
Also, definitely check out volume 2 of Pope Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth books. Also check out Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical letter on salvation, Spe Salvi ("Saved in Hope"). That encyclical includes a discussion of the relationship between faith and hope in the new testament and gives a rationale for purgatory.
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