Hans Kng
Hans Kng is a theologian, Swiss , born 19 March 1928 in Sursee in the canton of Lucerne ( Switzerland ).
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After studying theology in Rome at the Gregorian University , he was ordained priest in 1954. He continued his studies in various European universities, including the Sorbonne in Paris where he defended a doctoral thesis entitled "The justification. The doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic reflection. " In 1960 , Hans Kng was appointed professor of theology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tbingen , Federal Republic of Germany. There is a colleague Josef Ratzinger (future Pope Benedict XVI ), with whom he participated in Vatican II as theologian expert ( Peritus ). This experience marked him deeply.
During the 1970s , Hans Kng has published many books while pursuing his education. He noted at the beginning of the decade by publishing in 1971 Infallible? An inquiry in which he questioned a number of statements of Catholic doctrine enshrined in the First Vatican Council ( 1870 ), during which had been notably proclaimed the dogma of the infallibility of the pope. It is also during this time he published his monumental Being a Christian, who is something of a rationale of his theological system. Upon publication of this book, the German Bishops' Conference in highly critical "method of theological work, ignoring the tradition of faith of the Church, and the use of passage of Scripture chosen very arbitrarily, which leads to depletion of the contents of faith. . The German bishops accuse including Kng reduce Christ to a mere representative of God and to minimize the action of the latter The Weltethos He devoted himself since 1993 to the foundation "for a Global Ethic" ( Weltethos ) which seeks to develop and strengthen cooperation among religions beyond a vague recognition of common values. It particularly seeks to introduce real practical initiatives for peace and development. You can visit his site that includes the declaration for a global ethic . This commitment has earned him to receive the Niwano Peace Prize in 2005. For him, the different religions are or should be at the service of man and should be only secondary aspects of human ethics, and therefore world (the "Weltethik"), more fundamentally, where - finally - God is service of man. In 1995, upon publication of the encyclical Evangelium Vitae (on the value and inviolability of human life) of Pope John Paul II , Hans Kng accuses the Pope of being "a dictator trying to destroy the spiritual freedom consciousness, "to try to silence dissenters in his Church and to impose his morality to the world . Hans Kng said in 2003 seeking a "pragmatic reconciliation" with Rome. The Cardinal Karl Lehmann of Mainz , then said to the press that his attitude was "a remarkable expression of good will" and announced its intention to intervene in this matter to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith . In September 2003 , he published an article in the World Religions , to say that the repentance of 2000 media is a gesture that was not followed by major acts designed to achieve. In 2005, when Pope John Paul II dying, he gives an analysis of his pontificate, which will remain in his opinion "as a great hope and disappointment, finally, as a disaster" and has plunged the church "in a crisis which will then " . Although he said his concern at the election of Cardinal Josef Ratzinger as pope under the name Benedict XVI , Hans Kng has long been received by it at Castel Gandolfo on 24 September 2005 . In announcing the publication of the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Ctibus allowing the creation of structures that can accommodate groups of Anglicans refractory within the Catholic Church, Hans Kng published an article highly critical in various European newspapers highlighting what he interpreted as a funeral of years of work toward the ecumenism and as an operation prompted by a resurgence of Roman centralism, which would open the door to "hypertraditionalistes" Anglicans . The next day, Gian Maria Vian, editor of L'Osservatore Romano , Kng accused of being "very far from reality" . He was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2005 A critical stance toward the Catholic hierarchy
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