Hans Küng was a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. From 1995 he was president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Stiftung Weltethos).
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Although Küng was sanctioned by the church for his teachings, he was never excommunicated or removed from the priesthood for his work. (In the Catholic Church, excommunication is the revocation of a person's membership in the church.)
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In 1962 he was named by Pope John XXIII a peritus (theological consultant) for the Second Vatican Council. Küng's prolific writings questioned the formulation of such traditional church doctrine as papal infallibility, the divinity of Christ, and teachings about the Virgin Mary.
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He joined the Catholic theological faculty at Tübingen in 1960. In 1979, he was removed from the Catholic faculty by Pope John Paul II for his ...
Hans Küng
Swiss priest and theologian
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... Wikipedia
Born: March 18, 1928, Sursee, Switzerland
Died: April 6, 2021 (age 93 years), Tübingen, Germany
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Hans Küng (born March 19, 1928, Sursee, Switzerland—died April 6, 2021, Tübingen, Germany) was a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian whose controversial liberal ...
Apr 8, 2021 · Hans Küng, a Roman Catholic theologian and priest whose brilliantly disputatious, lucidly expressed thoughts in more than 50 books and ...
Apr 6, 2021 · Hans Küng, the renowned scholar and prolific writer who had lived with Parkinson's disease, macular degeneration and arthritis since 2013, died April 6 at his ...
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A mammoth and important rendering of the Christian faith, by one of the most prominent living Roman Catholic theologians.
Küng was a Catholic theologian and priest, a world-renowned pioneer regarding fundamental questions concerning Christian faith as well as in questions of church ...
May 6, 2021 · Küng pioneered a model for ecumenical—and later, interreligious—understanding by locating the usage of important terms in different language ...
Apr 15, 2009 · Theologian Hans Küng invited his colleague Josef Ratzinger to Tübingen to teach at the university's Catholic faculty. Shocked by the student ...
Apr 8, 2021 · The Roman Catholic priest and theologian Hans Küng, who has died aged 93, was only 11 months younger than Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. For three ...