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4 unusual facts about Hans Küng


Conciliarism

Some writers, including Hans Küng and Francis Christopher Oakley, have argued that the decrees of the Council of Constance remain valid, limiting papal power, despite these decrees being opposed by all subsequent popes and ecumenical councils.

Hans Küng

In March 1991, he gave a talk titled "No Peace Among Nations until Peace Among the Religions" at UCSD's Price Center.

Manifesto Global Economic Ethic

Küng, H., Leisinger, K., Wieland, J. (2010): Manifesto Global Economic Ethic.

Tom Axworthy

While at Harvard, Dr. Axworthy co-drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities with world-renowned theologian Hans Küng, a major project of the InterAction Council of Former Heads of State and Government.


Coetus Internationalis Patrum

It was originally formed after complaints by some of the more traditionalist bishops of the presence of Protestants and liberal Catholic theologians such as Hans Küng, Joseph Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) and Karl Rahner.

Edward Schillebeeckx

Already in 1963, together with Chenu, Congar, Karl Rahner, and Hans Küng he was involved in preparing the rise of the new theological journal Concilium, which was officially founded in 1965 with the support of Paul Brand and Antoine Van den Boogaard, and which promoted "reformist" thought.

Peritus

Father Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, served as peritus to Cardinal Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, Germany, while Hans Küng was a peritus for the Council, rather than for an individual Bishop.

Roy Bonisteel

In the next 22 years, Bonisteel would go on to interview Malcolm Muggeridge, Elie Wiesel, Mother Teresa, 14th Dalai Lama, Hans Küng and many others.


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