{"id":182684,"date":"2021-04-12T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=182684"},"modified":"2021-04-11T04:19:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T03:19:38","slug":"hans-kung-catholic-theologian-critical-of-the-church-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/04\/hans-kung-catholic-theologian-critical-of-the-church-dies-at-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans K\u00fcng, Catholic Theologian Critical of the Church, Dies at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A prolific writer and a prominent speaker, he promoted dialogue among religions and challenged Vatican doctrine on many fronts, provoking its censure.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The theologian Hans K\u00fcng speaking in New York in 1980, with a copy of one of the more than 50 books he wrote. \u201cNever again would a theologian have such influence,\u201d a Vatican expert wrote after all Dr. K\u00fcng\u2019s proposals at the Second Vatican Council were accepted in the council\u2019s final documents.
Neil Boenzi\/The New York Times<\/p><\/div>\n

8 Apr 2021 – <\/em>Hans K\u00fcng, a Roman Catholic theologian and priest whose brilliantly disputatious, lucidly expressed thoughts in more than 50 books and countless speeches advanced ecumenism and provoked the Vatican to censure him, died on Tuesday [6 Apr] at his home in T\u00fcbingen, Germany. He was 93.<\/p>\n

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The death was confirmed by Nadja Dornis, a spokeswoman for the Global Ethic Foundation<\/a>, which promotes Dr. K\u00fcng\u2019s ideas.<\/p>\n

Dr. K\u00fcng, who as an 11-year-old Swiss boy knew he wanted to be a priest, stood at the center of Christianity\u2019s great upheavals in the latter half of the 20th century. His relentless challenges to the church hierarchy caused his critics to call him the greatest threat to the church since Martin Luther, even the Antichrist.<\/p>\n

As a liberal, he criticized church policy on governance, liturgy, papal infallibility, birth control, priestly celibacy, the ordination of women, mixed marriages, homosexuality, abortion, the meaning of hell and much else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n