Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic
by Hans Küng
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In this timely and urgent work, Hans Kung reminds us:- Every minute, the nations of the world spend 1.8 million dollars on military armaments;- Every hour, 1500 children die of hunger-related causes;- Every week during the 1980s, more people were detained, tortured, assassinated, made refugee, or in other ways violated by acts of repressive regimes than at any other time in history;- Every month, the world's economic system adds over 7.5 billion dollars to the catastrophically unbearable show more debt burden of more than 1.5 trillion dollars now resting on the shoulders of Third World peoples;- Every year, an area of tropical forest three-quarters the size of Korea is destroyed and lost;- Every decade, if present global warming trends continue, the temperature of the earth's atmosphere could rise dramatically with a resultant rise in sea levels that would have disastrous consequences, particularly for coastal areas of all the earth's land masses.In 'Global Responsibility', the author offers important new approaches and concludes that:- There can be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions.- There can be no peace among the religions without dialogue between the religions.- There can be no ongoing human society without a global ethic. show lessTags
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> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Kung-Projet-dethique-planetaire--La-paix-mondiale...
> BAnQ (Le devoir, 16 avr. 2007) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2810548
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> PROJET D'ÉTHIQUE PLANÉTAIRE, de Hans Küng. — COUP DE CHAPEAU — Dans un autre style, continuons à suivre avec sympathie le travail du théologien Hans Küng, très critiqué par Rome la Rigide, et qui vient de publier un essai sur "la paix mondiale par la paix entre les religions" : Projet d'éthique planétaire aux ed. du Seuil.
Il est clair, même l'ONU s'en rend compte, que les progrès vers plus de fraternité ne se feront non pas contre mais avec les show more religions. La perception de différences entre celles-ci n'exclut pas la quête de valeurs communes. Ni l'entente sur la vraie valeur oecuménique : l'entité humaine. Rien ne fera sans ce respect fondamental encore méconnu. Ed. du Seuil.
—Nouvelles Clés, (21), Janv./Févr. 1992, (p. 85) show less
> BAnQ (Le devoir, 16 avr. 2007) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2810548
> BAnQ (La voix de l'Est, 7 mars 2012) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/4229358
> PROJET D'ÉTHIQUE PLANÉTAIRE, de Hans Küng. — COUP DE CHAPEAU — Dans un autre style, continuons à suivre avec sympathie le travail du théologien Hans Küng, très critiqué par Rome la Rigide, et qui vient de publier un essai sur "la paix mondiale par la paix entre les religions" : Projet d'éthique planétaire aux ed. du Seuil.
Il est clair, même l'ONU s'en rend compte, que les progrès vers plus de fraternité ne se feront non pas contre mais avec les show more religions. La perception de différences entre celles-ci n'exclut pas la quête de valeurs communes. Ni l'entente sur la vraie valeur oecuménique : l'entité humaine. Rien ne fera sans ce respect fondamental encore méconnu. Ed. du Seuil.
—Nouvelles Clés, (21), Janv./Févr. 1992, (p. 85) show less
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Hans Kung is Swiss and was born into a middle-class family. He studied in Rome for seven years, obtaining his licentiate in philosophy and theology from the Gregorian University there, and then receiving his doctorate in theology from the Catholic Institute in Paris. Since 1960 he has been a professor at Tubingen University, where he taught show more dogmatic and ecumenical theology until his permission to teach Catholic theology was removed as a consequence of statements judged to be contrary to official doctrine. Since 1980 he has taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, and occasionally in Europe as well. His difficulties with the church began with the publication The Church (1967) and became very hot with the publication of Infallible? An Inquiry (1971). More recently, his On Being Christian (1977) has raised the question of whether his theology is not simply rational Protestant theology of the turn of the century. Official inquiries were held, statements were exchanged between Kung and the Conference of German Bishops, and the Rome-based Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but no agreement was to be had. Kung continues to declare himself a loyal member of the Roman Catholic church and seems unlikely to leave its priesthood or to be excommunicated. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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