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All Blog Posts With Tag: Hans Küng
It is difficult to acknowledge that the New Testament contains antisemitic scriptures that exhibit hostility and prejudice against the Jewish people and indicts the Pharisees and Jewish leaders for the death of Jesus specifically and all generations of Jewish people since the death of Jesus generally. The antisemitism in the […]
Related: antijudaism, Antisemitism, Hans Küng, Holocaust, Jewish people, Jews, Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, Jürgen Moltmann, Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies, R. Kampling, Second Vatican Council, The Apostles Creed In Light of Today's Questions, Vatican II, Wolfhart Pannenberg, yellow badge, yellow star
Phillis Trible's Texts of Terror: Literary-feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives is a classic text on the sad stories of four women in the Bible: Hagar, Tamar, an unnamed woman, and the daughter of Jephthah. The book is an exegetical analysis of these four scriptural loci, that do not force angry feminism […]
In his book Christianity: Essence, History and Future, Hans Küng divides the history of Christianity into six paradigm shifts that he identifies as "the Jewish Christian apocalyptic, Hellenistic Byzantine, Roman Catholic, Reformation Protestantism and Enlightenment modern paradigms" [1] as well as a current "Contemporary ecumenical paradigm" [2]. Küng's six paradigm […]
The rise and fall of early Jewish Christianity
Jesus of Nazareth was an Aramaic speaking Jew in Judea, and all of his disciples and prophetic mission were strictly to Jewish people (Matt 15:24) and within Jewish lands (Matt 10:5-6), and he was firmly within Judaism (Matt 5:17-18). Likewise, the first Christians […]
In Christianity: Essence, History, Future, Hans Küng provides two full page charts comparing famous ethical codes from Judaism, Christianity and Islam to demonstrate that these Abrahamic religions share the same "basic common ethic" [1]: the first compares the Ten Commandments (i.e. the Decalogue in Exodus 20:1-21 RSV, c.f. Deuteronomy 5:4-21) […]
The Church Dogmatics, Vol IV: Doctrine of Reconciliation
From 1952 until 1967, Karl Barth devoted his time at the University of Basel to writing the unfinished fourth and final volume of the Church Dogmatics: the "Doctrine of Reconciliation" (CD IV). I will summarize this time by summarizing each of the part-volumes […]
Related: Basel, CD IV, CD IV.1, CD IV/2, CD IV/3, CD IV/3.1, CD IV/3.2, CD IV/4, CD V, Charlotte von Kirschbaum, Christian Life, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics IV, Church Dogmatics IV.1, Church Dogmatics IV/2, Church Dogmatics IV/3, Church Dogmatics IV/3.1, Church Dogmatics IV/3.2, Church Dogmatics IV/4, Church Dogmatics V, David W. Congdon, G.C. Berkouwer, Hans Küng, Rudolf Bultmann, W. Travis McMaken, white whale
[Brittany Maynard holding the prescription medicine she used to end her life peacefully and painlessly in 2014]
Does assisted suicide violate Christian ethics? Swiss Catholic priest and renown theologian Hans Küng says no in his book Eternal Life?: Life After Death as a Medical, Philosophical, and Theological Problem. Küng argues that […]
The 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation is days away, so it is a time to remember and reflect upon the Reformation, and specifically upon Martin Luther, who started the Reformation by nailing his 95 Theses to the door of Wittenberg Castle church on October 31, 1517. The Reformation opened Pandora's […]
The legacy of Hans Küng's Doctrine of Justification lives on! The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) is the largest body of Reformed Churches in the world, and they have signed the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification on July 5th, 2017 in special ceremony in Wittenburg, Germany. The signing was witnessed […]
Hans Küng on “Why I Am Still A Christian” (June 11, 2017)
Who is Hans Küng?
Hans Küng is a famous Swiss Catholic priest who was peritus at Vatican II, and is professor emeritus at the University of Tübingen. He is a PostBarthian darling, because his doctoral thesis was Karl Barth's Doctrine of Justification that fostered ecumenism between Catholics and Protestants. He's also a darling, […]
