A charming dissident: Hans Küng and China

A charming dissident: Hans Küng and China
The Swiss theologian and co-author Julia Ching shared a bitterness about the injustice they suffered from the Church
A Chinese boy walks through the aisle during a Mass at a Catholic church in a village near Beijing on Holy Saturday, April 3. (Photo: Jade Gao/AFP)
Hans Küng, the great contemporary theologian and intellectual who died on April 6, paid significant attention to China and Chinese religions.
The thoughts of the Swiss theologian had a clear progression from the particular to the universal. Starting from the theme of justification, which gained for him the esteem of Karl Barth, the giant of 20th-century Protestant theology, Küng became interested in the themes of the Church, particularly papal infallibility, certainly a significant problem in ecumenical dialogue.

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