Geburtstag: 19. März 1928
Hans Küng ist ein Schweizer Theologe, römisch-katholischer Priester und Autor. Von 1960 bis zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 1996 war er Theologie-Professor an der Eberhard Karls Universität im südwestdeutschen Tübingen, zuletzt für Ökumenische Theologie. Bis März 2013 war er Präsident der von ihm mitgegründeten Stiftung Weltethos.
Küng gilt nicht nur im deutschsprachigen Raum als einer der bekanntesten Kirchenkritiker unter den akademisch herausragenden katholischen Theologen der Zeitgeschichte. Insbesondere seine Kritik am Dogma der päpstlichen Unfehlbarkeit führte ein Jahr nach der Veröffentlichung seines vielbeachteten Buches Existiert Gott? Antwort auf die Gottesfrage der Neuzeit im Jahr 1979 aufgrund eines von Papst Johannes Paul II. gebilligten Erlasses der Glaubenskongregation zum Entzug seiner kirchlichen Lehrbefugnis für die römisch-katholische Glaubenslehre durch die Deutsche Bischofskonferenz. Wikipedia
Projekt Weltethos, Piper, München 1990, S. 171
Projekt Weltethos
Projekt Weltethos, Piper München 1990, S. 14 ISBN 3-492-03426-8
Projekt Weltethos
Der Anfang aller Dinge: Naturwissenschaft und Religion, Piper 2005, S. 91
Der Anfang aller Dinge: Naturwissenschaft und Religion
Der Anfang aller Dinge: Naturwissenschaft und Religion, Piper 2005, S. 169 ISBN 978-3492047876
Der Anfang aller Dinge: Naturwissenschaft und Religion
Newsweek interview, July 8, 1991
Kontext: If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.
Address at the opening of the Exhibit on the World's Religions at Santa Clara University (31 March 2005) http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/global_ethics/laughlin-lectures/kung-world-religions.html
Address at the opening of the Exhibit on the World's Religions at Santa Clara University (31 March 2005) note: Elaborations and extensions of this declaration occur in Küng's later writings, including: There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions. There will be no dialogue among the religions without global ethical standards. There will therefore be no survival of this globe without a global ethic.
Quelle: Christianity: Essence, History, Future
"If Obama were Pope" (31 January 2009) http://www.progressiveinvolvement.com/progressive_involvement/2009/01/if-obama-were-pope-by-professor-hans-kung.html
Kontext: The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as a judiciary. He is absolute head of government, legislator and supreme judge in the church. If he wanted to, he could authorize contraception over night, permit the marriage of priests, make possible the ordination of women and allow eucharistic fellowship with this Protestant churches. What would a Pope do who acted in the spirit of Obama?
Newsweek interview, July 8, 1991
Kontext: If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.
Disputed Truth: Memoirs Volume 2 (2008), p. 329
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