Hans Kung says Catholic Justification is not Synergistic (October 6, 2014)

Hans Kung Universidad de Educación a Distancia (2011) (source: wikipedia) Hans Küng's Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection proposes a solution to the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae that has captivated me, and I've been writing a series on this excellent work. In the following quotations, Küng addresses the question of whether […]

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Eberhard Jüngel on Justification: Hans Küng and the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (September 15, 2014)

Justification (source: bloomsbury) Eberhard Jüngel is a Lutheran theologian and Tübingen professor who is author of a book on the doctrine of justification, Justification: The Heart of the Christian Faith. I've been writing about The Legacy of Hans Küng's Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ) and asking how to respond to Kung's question: "Is it […]

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The Legacy of Hans Küng’s Doctrine of Justification (August 24, 2014)

Hans Küng (1928—) was ordained in 1955, and his doctoral thesis, Justification: La Doctrine de Karl Barth et Une Réflexion Catholique was published in 1957 (Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection, 1964 ET). Justification was Küng's first book and was a study of the Protestant and Roman Catholic teachings on the Doctrine of Justification […]

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Karl Barth’s Letter Endorsing Hans Küng’s Justification (August 4, 2014)

Hans Kung and Karl Barth(source: KBarth.org) Karl Barth responded to Hans Küng's book, Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection. in the follow letter with this remarkable endorsement of Hans Küng's book! Karl Barth had written in his Church Dogmatics Vol. 4 that only a superficial Protestant would be able to accept the […]

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Hans Küng explains Karl Barth’s Rejections of the Tridentine Teaching on Justification (August 2, 2014)

Barth with his brother Peter, his son Markus and Ernst Wolf in Florence, on a happy trip to Italy in September 1934. In Rome Barth wrote his No!, attacking Emil Brunner, and arguing that 'natural theology' was the chief cause of the present confusion in the church. (source: kbarth.org) In this […]

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The Church by Hans Küng (review) (October 17, 2011)

Hans Küng is a Catholic Priest and a prolific theologian, and a very controversial man. I'm drawn to his writings because he serves as aurea mediocritas between Protestantism and Catholicism. I first learned about Küng after his criticism of ...

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