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Hans Küng, Catholic Theologian With a Powerful Critique, Dies at 93
A prolific writer and a prominent speaker, he promoted dialogue among religions and challenged Vatican doctrine on many fronts, provoking its censure.
The theologian Hans Küng speaking in New York in 1980, with a copy of one of the more than 50 books he wrote. “Never again would a theologian have such influence,” a Vatican expert wrote after all Dr. Küng’s proposals at the Second Vatican Council were accepted in the council’s final documents.Credit.Neil Boenzi/The New York Times
April 6, 2021Updated 4:17 p.m. ET
Hans Küng, a Roman Catholic theologian and priest whose brilliantly disputatious, lucidly expressed thoughts in more than 50 books and countless speeches advanced ecumenism and provoked the Vatican to censure him, died on Tuesday at his home in Tübingen, Germany. He was 93.
If you care about climate change, racial justice or equality, thank a transcendentalist
The 19th century movement has much to say to us today.
A wooden marker denotes the site of Henry David Thoreau s cabin in Walden Pond, where he wrote his famous essay Walden.(Kirkikis / Getty Images)
By John A. Buehrens
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Often we first meet them in literature classes: chiefly through Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Yet they were more than writers, or individualists, praising “Self-Reliance,” or living at Walden Pond. Historically, transcendentalism was a movement of creative thinkers and activists, working for both spiritual and social transformation. They have much to say to us yet today.
Mr. Nitin Ajmera
Nitin Ajmera has been appointed as the new Chair of the Board at the Parliament of World s Religions, the first member of the Jain religion to serve as Chair.
It is about time an Indian person is Chair of an institution that values the spiritual traditions of the world like the Parliament.” Rev. Stephen Avino
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES, March 11, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ The Parliament of the World’s Religions (“the Parliament”) announced Nitin Ajmera, previously Treasurer of the Parliament from 2019 to 2020 and a member of its Board, has been appointed as the new Parliament Chair of the Board. Mr. Ajmera is the first member of the Jain religion and American of Indian descent to be Chair of the Parliament.
Aufheben der Kultur - Part 6. Christianity, savior of Western Culture or casualty of Cancel Culture?
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March 3, 2021
Below is an article by an associate of Tom DeWeese at the American Policy Center, Kathleen Marquardt, the Center s vice president.
In Part 1, I explained that, according to the Marxists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Western Culture and Christianity needed to be cancelled in order for Marxism to succeed in taking over the world. As this was being executed (Parts 2, 3, 4, and 5), another global cabal of American and British bankers and aristocrats who were determined to establish a global government were working parallel to the Marxists.