news Vale Hans Küng CELEBRATED AND SOMETIMES CONTROVERSIAL SWISS THEOLOGIAN HANS KÜNG HAS PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 93, A REPRESENTATIVE CONFIRMED IN EARLY APRIL
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An in-demand speaker, Küng’s international üng was one of the authors of several trips included being a featured speaker proposals that were accepted at the at then 2009 Parliament of the World’s second Vatican Council (or Vatican II). Religions in Melbourne, an event He was known for being unafraid of that featured the Dalai Lama as criticising his own denomination. The the keynote speaker. This was author of numerous theological an example of Küng’s work classics such as Infallible?, NEVER AGAIN in extending the dialogue Does God Exist?, and On Being WOULD A between Christianity and other A Christian, Küng called into THEOLOGIAN world religions. question the Vatican’s official HAVE SUCH opposition to women’s ordination His work also served to create INFLUENCE and the idea that the Pope was bridges between Catholics and infallible. The latter saw him Protestants removed as a priest (although a negotiated settlement with the Catholic In noting the sheer amount of Küng’s Church allowed him to remain a theologian in proposals that were accepted during Vatican good standing). II, Vatican expert Peter Hebblethwaite wrote that “Never again would a theologian have He also variously criticised the Vatican’s such influence.” policies on governance, liturgy, birth control, priestly celibacy, homosexuality, soteriology, JONATHAN FOYE and other topics.
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