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.