We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
Hans KungThe Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
Hans KungI don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.
Hans KungEven apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.
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