Quotes by Hans Kung

Hans Kung

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

Abandon

Church

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

Humans

Persons

Protected

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.

Humanity

Two

War

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.

Community

Historical

Society

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

Believe

Purpose

Warning

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

Community

People

Understanding

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

Deficiency

Facts

Matter

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.

Different

Evil

Men

But I have to add – and this answers your other question – this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

Add

Meaningful

Space

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.

Jesus

Opportunity

Punishment

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Abandon

Add

Age

Believe

Bigs

Brotherhood

Certain

Children

Church

Community

Dating

Deficiency

Dialogue

Different

Diversity

Earth

Essence

Ethics

Events

Evil

Facts

Father

Favors

Fighting

Giving

Goal

God

Goodbye

Guarantees That

Hate

Historical

Humanity

Humans

Important

Intriguing

Jesus

Lasts

Law

Matter

Mean

Meaningful

Men

Moving

Nations

Norm

Often Is

Opportunity

Order

People

Persons

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Quotes by Hans Kung

Hans Kung

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

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

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.

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.

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

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

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

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.

But I have to add – and this answers your other question – this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

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