1979
| In this highly acclaimed book, one of the most prominent theologians in the world offers a theological and psychoanalytic assessment of Freud's atheism and of its implications for current psychoanalytic practice. |
1976
| One of this century's most prominent and outspoken theologians affirms the vitality and uniqueness of Christianity by tracing it back to the reality of the historical Christ. |
2001
| Surveys the historical stages of each world religion and analyses their major paradigms and paradigm shifts. This work attempts to understand the religions, in both text and pictures, and discusses the social, political and historical contexts of the many forms of belief. |
2001
| In this extraordinary book, the controversial and profoundly influential Hans Küng chronicles the Roman Catholic Church’s role as a world power throughout history. Along the way, he examines the great schisms—between East and West, and Catholic and Protestant—as well as the evolving role of the papacy, the stories of the great reforming popes, and the expansion of a global church infrastructure. The book concludes with a searching assessment of how the Catholic faith will ....[more] |
1987
| Hans Kng (1928-) is one of the most distinguished and widely-acclaimed theologians of the twentieth century. He has committed himself to a Christian Church full of life and freedom and humanity. His ideas have been warmly received and appreciated by people throughout the world and have stirred the imaginations of Christians and non-Christians alike. But why have his ideas also met with such opposition and even outright hostility from many Church authorities? And what does Hans Kung himself make ....[more] |
1980
| Does God exist? Or has He perished under the philosophic rubble of history's countless generations? Philosophers from Aristotle to Sartre, dramatists from Sophocles to Beckett, have attempted to formulate answers to serve the needs of their contemporaries. In this foundational book, comparable in importance to his best-selling On Being a Christian, Hans Kung, the most renowned and controversial theologian of our time, seeks to re-answer and redefine this age-old question for today's world. |
2010
| After two volumes of autobiography, Hans K?ng now writes a short personal statement of his Christian belief. |
2007
| For more than two decades the world religions have been a central topic forans Kung. In books which have inspired millions throughout human society, heas pioneered work towards a new dialogue between cultures. In thisxtraordinary comprehensive book, he gives an in-depth account of Islam.escribing paradigm shifts in its 1400-year history, outlining the variousurrents and surveying the positions of Islam on the urgent questions of theay, few present-day theologians could have written such a comple....[more] |
2001
| Kng, Professor at the University of Tbingen and director of the Institute for Global Ethics, sketches out a new theology of women in the Church. |
1994
| "A mammoth and important rendering of the Christian faith, by one of the most prominent living Roman Catholic theologians. . . . Impressive work that could become essential reading for students and interested laypersons alike".--Kirkus Reviews |
1991
| In this timely and urgent work, Hans Kung reminds us every minute the nations of the world spend 1.8 million dollars on military armaments; every hour 1,500 children die of hunger-related causes; every decade, if present global warming trends continue, the temperature of the earth's atmosphere could rise dramatically with a resultant rise in sea levels that would have disastrous consequences, particularly for coastal areas of all the earth's land masses. |
1988
| When it first appeared, in 1971, this book caused its author to lose his license from the church to teach. Long unavailable, the book now appears with a new preface and a survey of the discussion of papal infallibility. |
1980
| Now, forty years since its original publication, Hans Kung's groundbreaking study acclaimed as a model for ecumenical discussion has become a classic work. Looking at the doctrine of justification as understood by the Protestant theologian Karl Barth in comparison to classic Roman Catholic theology, Kung found that the two had similar ideas about the main elements of justification. He argued there is fundamental agreement between Catholicism and Barth's doctrine and that the somewhat divergent v....[more] |
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