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According to Wikipedia , Hans Küng was a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. From 1995 he was president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic . Küng was ordained a priest in 1954, joined the faculty of the University of Tübingen in 1960, and served as a theological adviser during the Second Vatican Council. In 1978, after he rejected the doctrine of papal infallibility, he was not allowed to continue teaching as a Catholic theologian, but he remained at Tübingen as a professor of ecumenical theology until he retired with the title professor emeritus in 1996. He remained a Catholic priest until his death. He supported the spiritual substance of religion, while questioning traditional dogmatic Christianity. He published Christianity and the world religions: paths of dialogue with Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism in 1986, wrote Dying with Dignity together with Walter Jens in 1998, and signed the appeal Church 2011, The Need for a New Beginning. He was awarded honorific doctorates internationally, and received numerous awards including the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in 2008. An asteroid is named after him.
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1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 Published Works On Being a Christian (1976) (180)A Global Ethic: The Declaration of the Parliament of the World's Religions (1993) (169)Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic (1991) A global ethic for global politics and economics (1997) (111)Islam: Past, Present and Future (2007) (75)Theology for the Third Millennium: An Ecumenical View (1988) The Catholic Church: A Short History (2001) Freud and the problem of God (1982) A Global Ethic in an Age of Globalization (1997) Christianity and Chinese Religions (1991) Christianity and World Religions: Paths of Dialogue with Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism (1986) Christianity and the World Religions (1993) Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection (1981) (33)Paradigm change in theology : a symposium for the future (1989) (33)Does God Exist?: An Answer for Today (1980) (33)Christianity: Essence, History, and Future (1995) The Beginning of All Things: Science and Religion (2007) Women in Christianity (2001) Paradigm Change in Theology (1989) (27)A Global Ethic and Global Responsibilities : Two Declarations (1998) (26)Yes to a global ethics (1996) (26)Infallible? An Inquiry (1971) (25)Tracing The Way: Spiritual Dimensions of the World Religions (2002) (25)An Ethical Framework for the Global Market Economy (2003) Great Christian Thinkers (1994) Art and the question of meaning (1981) (19)CHRISTIANITY AND WORLD RELIGIONS: THE DIALOGUE WITH ISLAM AS ONE MODEL (1987) Christianity: Its Essence and History (1995) (16)The Council, Reform And Reunion (1961) (14)Eternal Life?: Life After Death as a Medical, Philosophical, and Theological Problem (1984) (14)The Catholic Church (2020) Structures Of The Church (1964) (14)The Incarnation of God an Introduction to Hegel's Theological Thought as Prolegomena to a Future Christology (1987) (14)Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (1992) Global ethic for a new global order (2001) (13)Religion, violence and “holy wars” (2005) The ethics of world religions and human rights (1990) (12)Dialogue of civilizations : a new peace agenda for a new millennium (2002) Credo: The Apostles' Creed Explained for Today (2003) (11)A Global Ethic and Education (1995) My Struggle for Freedom: Memoirs (2003) (10)Council speeches of Vatican II (1964) (9)Mozart: Traces of Transcendence (1993) (8)Toward Vatican III: The Work That Needs to Be Done David Tracy Hans Küng Johann Metz New York, Seabury, 1978. 333 pp. $14.95 (paper $5.95) (1978) Reforming the Church Today: Keeping Hope Alive (1990) Dying with dignity : a plea for personal responsibility (1995) The Council And Reunion (1961) (7)Ciencia y ética mundial (2006) (7)Islam : a challenge for Christianity (1994) (5)A Global Ethic In World Politics: The Middle Way Between “Real Politics” and “Ideal Politics” (1999) Truthfulness : the future of the church (1968) (5)Global Ethics and Education in Tolerance (1996) How to do good and avoid evil : a global ethic from the sources of judaism (2009) (4)Freedom and man (1965) (4)Consensus in Theology? (1980) Why I Am Still a Christian (1987) (3)Infallible?: An Unresolved Enquiry (1994) (3)Apostolic Succession: Rethinking a Barrier to Unity (1968) (3)The Global Economic Crisis Requires a Global Ethic: The Manifesto for a Global Economic Ethic (2014) The Council in action (1963) (3)Who Has the Say in the Church (1982) (2)Post-ecumenical Christianity (1970) (2)Does God Exist? An Answer for Today. Hans Küng Responds (1980) What I Believe (2010) Küng In Conflict (1981) (2)Christianity among world religions (1986) (2)The Incarnation of God (1987) (2)A dignified dying : a plea for personal responsibility (1995) (2)Basic trust as the foundation of a global ethic (2001) Conflicting Ways of Interpreting the Bible (1980) (1)Hans Küng: His work and his way (1979) (1)A Global Ethics (2009) The Right to dissent (1982) (1)THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL IN THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE (1962) The Church - Maintained in Truth: A Theological Meditation (1980) (1)How the Idea of a "Global Ethic" Arose—And a Catholic Christian's Reading of the Qur'ānic Basis for It (2021) The Living Church: Reflections on the Second Vatican Council (1963) (1)The Sacraments : an ecumenical dilemma (1967) (1)A Council for peace (1988) (1)Dying With Dignity (1995) (1)Signposts For The Future (1978) (1)Consensus in Theology: A Dialogue With Hans Kung and Edward Schillebeeckx (1980) (1)Lebensmodell (2), Studium Generale, SS 2009 (2010) (0)Conclusion: No Clash, But Dialogue Among Religions and Nations (2019) Empresa global y ethos global (2001) (0)22nd Niwano Peace Prize Commemorative Address (2006) Clash of Civilizations or World Peace through Religious Peace (1995) Literature & Religion: Pascal, Gryphius, Lessing, Holderlin, Novalis, Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Kafka (1991) (0)Heresies of Modern Art@@@Art and the Question of Meaning (1982) The Decalogue as an ABC of Human Behavior (2016) Die widerspenstige Religion (1997) (0)The Testimony of Faith to the Ultimate Origin (2010) DOES GOD EXIST? AN ANSWER FOR TODAY, by Hans Küng. Translated by Edward Quinn. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1980. Pp. 839. $17.50 (2004) (0)Global Ethic, Law and Politics (2011) [Religion--the last taboo? On the displacement of religiosity]. (1988) (0)Lebensfreude (2), Studium Generale, SS 2009 (2010) (0)SG (SS 2009) Lebensleid (2010) (0)Global Ethic: A Response to My Critics (2000) The Future of ecumenism (1969) (0)Mary in the churches (1983) (0)Escape from the Third Paradigm (1986) Lebensmacht, Studium Generale, SS 2009 (2010) (0)Review (2012) The Controversy over Brain Research (2009) The Christian challenge: A shortened version of On being a Christian (1979) (0)Structures of the Church : with a preface to the new paperback edition, "Twenty years later" (1982) (0)Lebenskunst, Studium Generale, SS 2009 (2010) (0)How Are we to Think of God?: A Theologian Answers Science, Think of God? (2007) A Joint Vision for World Peace? Religions as Driving Forces for a Culture of Peace (2012) The age of globalization requires a global ethic* (2010) Global Ethic for a New World Order (2001) Lebensvertrauen (2), Studium Generale, SS 2009 (2009) (0)More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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