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Offline Cryptinox

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Hans Küng has died
« on: April 06, 2021, 05:15:24 PM »
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Offline Cryptinox

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Re: Hans Küng has died
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2021, 05:16:47 PM »
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SPIEGEL: Professor Küng, will you go to Heaven?
Küng: Well I certainly hope so. [German: “Das hoffe ich doch sehr.” NOW comment: The way the answer is phrased in German suggests not the theological virtue of hope but a presumption that he is deserving of Heaven and it would be an affront to him should he not be admitted.]
SPIEGEL: What would indicate that you will go to hell [instead] is you being a heretic in the eyes of the Church.
Küng: I am not a heretic but a critical reform theologian, who, in contrast to many of his critics, does not use medieval theology, liturgy, and canon law as his standard but the Gospel.
SPIEGEL: Does hell even exist?
Küng: All the talk about hell is a warning that a man can completely miss the meaning of his life. I do not believe in an eternal hell.
SPIEGEL: If hell means losing the meaning of life, then that is a fairly earthly conception.
Küng: Sartre says that hell is other people. Men make their own hell, for example in wars like in Syria or also in an unscrupulous capitalism.
(Hans Kung, “Ich hänge nicht an diesem Leben”, Der Spiegel, Dec. 9, 2013; underlining added; our translation.)
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Offline Cryptinox

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Re: Hans Küng has died
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2021, 05:51:09 PM »
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Hans Küng has died
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2021, 10:07:55 PM »
I pray that he saw the light and converted before his death.
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Offline Minnesota

Re: Hans Küng has died
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2021, 10:51:19 PM »
Here's how you know things were rotten in the Church for a long, long time — he was admitted to the seminary. Period. Someone let him stay for 7 years through minor and major orders. Either a very rotten seminary, or a rotten bishop, or both.
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