n March 1993 Hans Kung celebrated his sixty-fifth birthday, and to mark the occasion a substantial volume was presented to him: not so much the usual Festschrift as a 'workbook' on the many aspects of his faith and thought. This translation is an abridged version of the German text, containing articles of particular interest to readers in the English-speaking world. Its seven sections cover the church, the Catholicity of Hans Kfing's theology, the ecumenical world, christology and the doctrine of God, the dialogue with Judaism, world religions and the influence of Hans Kting. The contributors come not only from Switzerland and Germany but from Britain and Ireland, the United States, Latin America, Saudi Arabia and Russia and represent Judaism, Islam and Buddhism as well as Christianity. Besides being a fascinating critical survey of the life and work of a quite remarkable theologian, the book has one further, important aim: the rehabilitation of Hans Kung as a Catholic theologian. As one of the great figures of Roman Catholic ecumenical theology, Heinrich Fries, recently asked: 'Is the Catholic church so narrow that it cannot tolerate a man like Kung, or is it so rich that it can dispense with him?'

Bosnia / Smail Balic -- Africa / Patrick D. Gaffney -- Women in Islam and Christianity / Riffat Hassan -- Indonesia / Judo Poerwowidagdo -- Islam, the one and the many / John Renard -- The threat of Islam / John L. Esposito - Is Islam threatened by Christianity? / Mohammed Arkoun -- Tawhid / V.J. Cornell -- The challenge of Islamic monotheism / A. Gonzalez Montes -- Human rights in Islam / Mahmud Gamal-ad-din -- The 1981 'Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights' / Heiner Bielefeldt -- Is Islamic revelation an abrogation of Judaeo-Christian revelation? / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Christianity - challenged by Islam / Gerhard Bowering - The abrogation of Judaism and Christianity in Islam / Jane Dammen McAuliffe -- World peace - world religions - world ethic / Hans Kung.