Hans Kung Quotes

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• 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.

  Hans Kung

  Dialogue, Nations

  Hans Kung's Address at the opening of the Exhibit on the World's Religions at Santa Clara University, March 31, 2005.

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• God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

  Hans Kung

  God, Religious, Suffering

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• In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

  Hans Kung

  Thought Provoking, Humanity, Lasts

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• I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

  Hans Kung

  Reality, Space, Transition

  "Controversial Theologian Hans Küng 'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

  Hans Kung

  Community, Historical, Society

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Father, Fighting

  Newsweek interview, July 08, 1991.

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• As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

  Hans Kung

  Matter, Facts, Deficiency

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• Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

  Hans Kung

  Believe, Purpose, Warning

  "Controversial Theologian Hans Küng:'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

  Hans Kung

  War, Often Is, Goal

  Hans Kung (1998). “A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

  Hans Kung

  Persons, Humans, Protected

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• It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

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  Intriguing, Uncertain, Certain

  Hans Kung (2006). “Does God Exist?: An Answer for Today”, p.56, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by without this absolutist system for 1,000 years. The problems began in the 11th century, when the popes asserted their claim to absolute control over the Church.

  Hans Kung

  Views, Years, Community

  "'A Putinization of the Catholic Church'". Interview with Martin Doerry, Ulrich Schwarz and Peter Wensierski, www.spiegel.de. September 21, 2011.

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• There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

  Hans Kung

  World Religions, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

  Hans Kung

  Church, Abandon

  Die Kirche (translated by Ray and Rosalee Ockenden as The Church, 1967).

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• Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

  Hans Kung

  Spiritual, Order, Humanity

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• We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

  Hans Kung

  Thinking, Age, Today

  "'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

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  Political, Earth, Problem

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• In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

  Hans Kung

  Mean, Guarantees That, Events

  "Controversial Theologian Hans Kung: 'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

  Hans Kung

  Important, Synthesis, Theology

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• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  Hans Kung

  Xenophobia, Hate, Moving

  Hans Kung (1998). “A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

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  Children, Wife, Temptation

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• Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.

  Hans Kung

  Jesus, Opportunity, Punishment

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• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

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  Men, Evil, Different

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• After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

  Hans Kung

  War, Two, Humanity

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• The Gospel has to be the norm.

  Hans Kung

  Norm

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