Known for his liberalizing influence at Vatican II and subsequent
confrontations with Rome on issues like papal infallibility, Hans
Kung offers here "a kind of small 'Summa' of the Christian faith."
Maybe small as Summas go, it is a large tome (over 700 pp.) by
standard measures, and though Kung's writing is uncommonly
forthright, the book is more a sprawling compedium to be worked
through than a tight, readable essay. Its range of topics and
sources is impressive, and it is the first comprehensive account of
Christian faith by a major Catholic theologian in some time. What
distinguishes it is not its originality or depth, but its honesty
and directness, its bold determination to say clearly and
concretely what being a Christian means today. Kung argues that
both technological humanism and sociopolitical revolution have
failed to provide adequate contemporary Weltanschauungen and that
other world religions have not yet effectively come to grips with
modernity. Thus the time is ripe for a vigorous Christian faith,
rooted in the historical person and teaching of Jesus and free of
the many distortions of ecclesiastical tradition, that can speak to
the current yearning for transcendence. Fundamentally, Kung is for
a humanized, demythologized Christianity (e.g. no virgin birth,
miracles, physical Resurrection), and he is most effective in his
demands that the Church become once more a community of faith
rather than the byzantine spiritual corporation it now tends to be.
Not Aquinas by any means, (which has advantages), but an important,
challenging work nonetheless. (Kirkus Reviews)
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.
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