We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
HANS KUNGThat is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
More Hans Kung Quotes
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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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.
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There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
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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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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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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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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.
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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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God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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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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