Confesso que nao sou um admirador de Bento XVI. E verdade que, por ser um agnostico declarado, talvez se possa duvidar de minha imparcialidade. Porem, fui um admirador de Joao XXIII, Paulo VI e Joao ...Paulo I. e acompanhei com a maior atencao o Concilio Vaticano II, que constituiu uma enorme abertura da Igreja para a sociedade e contribuiu decisivamente para o dialogo ecumenico entre as igrejas, bem como para o dialogo civilizado entre crentes e nao crentes, e a favor da paz.O minimo que se pode dizer e que Bento XVI nao se situa na linha dos papas que o antecederam e continuaram se inspirando no espirito do Vaticano II. Embora Joao Paulo II tenha dado marcha-a-re em alguns aspectos de estrita ortodoxia teologica, em outras areas foi um grande papa, que compreendeu a pluralidade do mundo, dialogou com amplitude em todos os continentes e deu uma contribuicao importante para a unidade da Europa, antes e depois do colapso do universo comunista e da Uniao Sovietica em particular.Desde do comeco de seu pontificado para muitos catolicos, inesperado Bento XVI se singularizou por ter dado passos em falso que o obrigaram a tergiversacoes sucessivas, resultando em uma imagem titubeante e pouco segura. O eminente teologo catolico suico Hans Kung que o conhece ha muitos anos e com quem teve discussoes e divergencias lhe deu, no inicio, o "beneficio da duvida".
In a speech, laureate Hans Kung expresses how he is deeply grateful to the Niwano Peace Foundation for having chosen him as the year's honoree of the prestigious Niwano Peace Prize. He considers this ...distinction as a threefold encouragement and receives the prize precisely for his efforts to promote a global ethic.
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Hans Küng va ser company d'universitat de Joseph Ratzinger, avui Benet XVI, i designat per Joan XXIII conseller oficial del Concili Vaticà II. L'any 1979 va ser sancionat per ...Joan Pau II, que li va prohibir fer classes de teologia o celebrar oficis religiosos. És contrari a la infal·libilitat del Papa i gran defensor del diàleg entre religions. Exposa el seu punt de vista sobre la crisi mundial i la situació política actual, la religió, del Papa Benet XVI, i l'avortament. - ELS ALTRES SINGULARS: Reportatge sobre Susana López, venerable Ngagmo Tsering Tashi o monja budista que va deixar la seva feina com a psicòloga amb persones amb discapacitats psíquiques per anar a viure a un monestir budista i dedicar la seva vida a aquesta religió.
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Interview with Hans Küng, 81-year-old Swiss theologian, priest, historian of religions, and president of the World Ethics Foundation.
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Entrevista amb Hans Küng, teòleg suís de 81 anys, sacerdot, historiador de les religions i president de la Fundació Ètica Mundial.
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In 2006 Swiss theologian Hans Küng added his distinctive and important voice to the science/theology discussion in his work Der Anfang aller Dinge. I summarize here the general contours of Küng's ...argumentation and briefly evaluate his proposals, especially in relation to his earlier publications. English translations are provided for German citations. After summarizing Küng's response to the question of the search for a unified theory of everything, I present his answer to the question of how theology and science should be related. This leads to a summary of his extensive meditation on science and the question of God's existence from a theological‐philosophical perspective. After examining his thesis concerning creation and evolution, I discuss matters more anthropological and trace the final elements of Küng's argument as they relate to eschatology and science. Finally, I evaluate the general thrust of his argumentation with special reference to his previous publications.
'Our church," according to the major Catholic theologian of our time, "now finds itself in the worst credibility crisis since the Reformation." That is the conclusion of Father Hans Kung, motivated ...by "a profound concern for our church," in a seven-page letter to Catholic bishops of the world last June. Instead of addressing "major challenges of our times," the pope missed opportunities again and again, including "the opportunity for rapprochement with the Protestant churches ... for long-term reconciliation with the Jews ... for a dialogue with Muslims in an atmosphere of mutual trust ... for reconciliation with the colonized indigenous peoples of Latin America," as well as "to help the people of Africa by allowing the use of birth control to fight overpopulation and condoms to fight the spread of HIV," etc. The letter to bishops reminds them that "unconditional obedience is owed to God alone," underscoring Fr. Kung's earlier arguments challenging the declaration on papal infallibility: "Unconditional obedience can never be paid to any human authority; it is due to God alone ... Your model should be the apostle Paul, who dared to oppose Peter "to his face since he was manifestly in the wrong." (Galatians 2:11).
