Word: bingen
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Professor Hans Küng, Catholic priest and theologian at the University of Tübingen, West Germany, has clashed with the Vatican over such teachings as papal infallibility and birth control. In the following statement, made available to TIME, ten theologians, including Küng* offer some answers to the question: What kind of Pope does today's church need...
...theology is too static and abstract and has overemphasized Jesus' divinity to the point where he has been stripped of his full humanity. One of the most outspoken advocates of this school of thought is Priest-Theologian Hans Küng, 49, of the University of Tübingen, Germany. Küng, who has previously struggled with the Vatican on other issues, has been accused by his country's bishops of disseminating dangerous views about Christ. Last week, after three years of futile negotiations, Küng issued his latest response to the bishops' charges...
...most effective recent Catholic exponent of ancient dogma is Küng's colleague at Tübingen, the Rev. Walter Kasper. In his major 1974 work (English edition: Jesus the Christ; Paulist Press; 1976), Kasper rejected Küng's idea that the early councils distorted the Gospel with Greek concepts. Rather, he says, the councils did the opposite. They "dehellenized" the church, using the language of Greek philosophy to express beliefs that "shattered all of its perspectives...
...least a century, German and Germanic theologians have dominated Protestant thought. In the current generation, the two acknowledged theological stars are Tübingen's Jürgen Moltmann and Munich's Wolfhart Pannenberg. Moltmann, of Theology of Hope fame, has been the better known and the more popular, especially among Protestant social reformers. Pannenberg is still largely unknown outside the tight little world of religious scholars. But, says John Cobb of California's School of Theology at Claremont, he "is fairly widely recognized to have published more substantive work in theology in the past decade" than...
...Canada, a "notoriously difficult thinker" whose work seeks to join theology and the social sciences; and Father Andrew Greeley, a Chicago sociologist whose insights have provided "a better understanding of today's religious crisis." Swiss-born Theologian Hans Küng of West Germany's Tübingen University was described as "devotedly Roman Catholic" although he has a deserved reputation as a radical for his criticism of papal infallibility. Howard University Theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether-the only woman on the list-was cited for seeing traditional Christianity as "an ideology of oppressors" and trying to transform...