The death of the Swiss theologian Hans Küng (born in 1928) makes the Christian world orphan of an attentive, critical and profound scholar. It is impossible to remember in detail what he did and what he wrote. We will say that he studied philosophy and theology at the Gregorian, taught dogmatics, became an expert at Vatican II and above all knew how to remember the responsibilities of the Christian faith towards the modern world and the need to give life to interreligious dialogue.
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Küng was one of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century and a moral authority for contemporary believers. Ordained a priest in Rome in 1954, he did not get lost in typical researches of politically committed theology, but knew how to ask himself fundamental questions about the existence of God, about the infallibility of the Pope, about what is meant when we talk about the Church, about the relationships between faith and science.
He studied the three monotheisms in depth – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – and spared nothing from the Roman magisterium. It is no coincidence that he was relieved, due to his doctrinal positions, from the post of professor.
Project for a worldwide ethics
Books such as “Does God Exist? Answer to the Problem of God in the Modern Age “or” Eternal Life? ” (both translated by Mondadori) remain classics; a work such as “Project for a worldwide ethics. An ecumenical morality for human survival ”(Rizzoli) is indispensable for understanding the issues of the present. A great connoisseur of the fleeting world of notes and the importance it covers, he demonstrated it in “Music and religion. Mozart, Wagner, Bruckner ”(Queriniana).