Latest Hans Kung Quotes from Interviews

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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.

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  Views, Years, Community

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

• I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

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  Goodbye, Moving, Time To Move On

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

• 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.

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  Reality, Space, Transition

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

• I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

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  Believe, Views, Bigs

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

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

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  Thinking, Age, Today

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

• 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.

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  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.

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

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  Believe, Purpose, Warning

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

• For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.

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  People, Role Models, Roles

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