Hans Küng: Church

Hans Küng is Swiss Catholic priest, theologian and author. Explore interesting quotes on church.

Hans Küng: 14 quotes4 likes

“Joseph Ratzinger has stood still because as a Bavarian Catholic in the Hellenistic tradition, interpreted in Roman terms, he wanted to stand still. To this degree he represented and represents a different basic model of theology and church, as different from mine as in astronomy Ptolemy's geocentric picture of the world is different from Copernicus' heliocentric picture.”

Disputed Truth: Memoirs Volume 2 (2008), p. 329

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

Newsweek interview, July 8, 1991

“The same church must, in my opinion, also respect that the one whose name is absent from the same declaration out of embarrassment, although he and he alone led Muslims to pray to this one God, so that once again through him, Muhammad, the prophet, this God "has spoken to mankind."”

World Religions 129