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My Struggle for Freedom

Memoirs
  • ISBN-13: 9780802878267
  • Publisher: EERDMANS TRADE
    Imprint: EERDMANS TRADE
  • By Hans Kueng
  • Price: AUD $78.99
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  • Local release date: 02/01/2018
  • Format: Paperback (234.00mm X 156.00mm) 496 pages Weight: 807g
  • Categories: Autobiography: religious & spiritual [BGXA]Memoirs [BM]
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Hans Kueng is undoubtedly one of the most important theologians of our time, but he has always been a controversial figure, and as the result of a much-publicized clash over papal infallibility had his permission to teach revoked by the Vatican. Yet at seventy-five years of age Kueng is also something of a senior statesman, one of the "Group of Eminent Persons" convened by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and a friend of heads of government like Britain's Tony Blair and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. In this fascinating autobiography Kueng gives a frank and outspoken account of the first four decades of his life. He tells of his youth in Switzerland and his decision to become a priest, of his doubts and struggles as he studied in Rome and Paris, and of his experiences as a professor in Tuebingen, where he received a chair at the early age of thirty-one. Most importantly, as one of the last surviving eyewitnesses of Vatican II, Kueng gives an authentic account of the conflicts behind the scenes. Here it becomes clear just how major an influence he was, to the point of shaping the Council's agenda and drafting speeches for bishops to deliver in plenary sessions. Kueng's book offers an acute analysis, compelling in its drama, of meetings with presidents like John F. Kennedy, popes like John XXIII and Paul VI, great theologians like Karl Barth and Karl Rahner, and journeys around the world. With its rich thought and vivid narrative, it paints a moving picture of Kueng's personal convictions, including his relentless struggle for a Christianity characterized not by the domination of an official church but by Jesus.
Hans Kueng is president of the Global Ethic Foundation (Germany/Switzerland) after retiring in 1996 as professor of ecumenical theology and director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research at the University of Tuebingen. He is the author of more than fifty books, including The Catholic Church and On Being a Christian."
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