Quotes from Hans Kung

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

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.

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

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.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

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

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

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.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.

historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God and this by definition means with the invisible, impalpable, uncontrollable, only one attitude is appropriate and required : believing trust, trusting faith.

The face he showed in Jesus is really his true and single face.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

The comprehensive organization of the church, with its solid roots and the manifold forms of charitable help to the many who were poor and in distress; • Christian monotheism, which commended itself as the progressive and enlightened position in the face of polytheism, with its wealth of myths; • The lofty ethic, which, tested by ascetics and martyrs to the point of death, showed itself to be superior to pagan morality;

Does not simply contain God's word: it becomes God's word for anyone who submits trustfully and in faith to its testimony.

To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others.

It considers this Jesus as ultimately decisive, definitive, archetypal for man in these various dimensions of his.

Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning.

Clear answers to problems like guilt and atonement, dying and immortality; • And with all this, still a wide-ranging assimilation to Hellenistic-Roman society. Once the freedom of religion

Through this interpretation of the biblical teaching on the Fall, Augustine, who had a brilliant capacity for analytical self-reflection far exceeding that of any other author of antiquity, effectively poisoned the entire Western Church with his doctrine on original sin, which is rejected down to this day by the Eastern churches.