"Even apart from the image of a truly……" — Hans Kung
"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."
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29 Quotes by Hans Kung
Hans Kung has 29 quotes on this site.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for…
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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes…
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and…
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But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space…
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is…
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and…
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The…
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Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned…
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Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours.…
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we…
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