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GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1968 3
PRIEST DECLINES REPLY
Congregation Questions Kung’s Book
NEW YORK (RNS)-The
Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith (formerly the Holy
Office) has requested Father
Hans Kung, famous Catholic
theologian, to appear in Rome to
answer questions about his recent
book. Father Kung has declined
the invitation, it was learned
here, “due to lack of time.”
The book in question is titled
simply “The Church.” The
Congregation for the Faith had
issued a monitum (warning)
against it after the book first
appeared last year in a German
edition, ordering that it not be
translated or published in other
languages.
The book has since been
published in several languages and
has been widely hailed as a
theological classic.
FATHER Daniel J. O’Hanlon,
S.J., professor of fundamental
theology at Alma College, Los
Gatos, Calif., called it “the best
over-all theological study of the
Church now in print.”
In a recent review of the
book, he stated that it contains
no novelties or unusual opinions
and that most of what is said in it
is “common currency among
working theologians.”
The original German edition 1
of the book was published by the
Verlag Herder Co. last year and
bore the inscription, “with
ecclesiastical permission.” Msgr.
Karl Knaupp, vicar general of the
Diocese of Rottenburg, had
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granted the permission for its development, the renewal of the
publication. Church and ecumenical progress.
The English edition was
published by Burns and Oates,
Ltd., with the imprimatur of the
Archdiocese of Westminster,
under the name of Bishop Patrick
Casey, vicar general.
Sheed and Ward, the
HANS KUNG
American publishers of Father
Kung’s bpok, in a statement
released here, declared:
“SHEED AND WARD is
proud to be the publisher of ‘The
Church’ by Professor Hans Kung.
We feel that it is a work of major
importance and a lasting
contribution to theological
“As the Christian church
strives to understand itself more
profoundly and to approach the
contemporary world more
credibly, Prof. Kung’s work will
exert lasting influence.”
It was not known what points
in Father Kung’s book were
objected to by the Vatican
Congregation. But there are
several theological concepts in
the work which, while they have
been widely discussed' among
theologians, had not been
published prior to Father Kung’s
book.
One such concept is
concerned with the question of
ministries. Father Kung
distinguishes between
charism-inspired ministry and the
appointed ministry. The latter
has been traditionally called the
ordained ministry.
Both of these ministries he
considers as necessary and part of
an apostolic succession. Father
Kung sees the appointed
ministry, however, as • having
displaced the charismatic
ministry.
THE CATHOLIC Church has
emphasized the danger of charism
but, he notes, “the New
, Testament warns not only against
false prophets and unbridled
charisms, but also against false
holders of office who are
hirelings rather than shepherds.”
It is not till the latter part of
the book that Father Kung
considers the office of the Pope
as such.
He begins this section with an
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admonition,'which sources close
to Father Kung say was intended
for ecclesiastical authorities in
Rome.
The section opens as follows:
“READERS WHO begin
reading at this .point are making a
mistake. Some people, when
reading any book about the
Church, are constantly on the
look-out for this one point: is the
writer for or against the Pope?
“It would be unfortunate,
then, if they were to begin their
dialogue by seizing hold of this
one issue and have no time or
interest for the rest.”
Father Kung is dean of the
Catholic Theological Faculty at
the University of Tuebingen,
Germany. The 39-year-old Swiss
theologian recently returned
there after having been the Harry
Emerson Fosdick Visiting
Professor at Union Theological
Seminary here during the past
semester.
In a public lecture at Union
last February, he declared that
while he “is very critical” of the
Catholic Church, he was “never
seriously tempted” to leave it.
Father Kung made his remarks
while discussing Professor Charles
Davis, a leading "English Catholic
theologian, who renounced the
priesthood and the Catholic
Church.
HE NOTED that it was easier
for some renewal-minded
theologians to stay in the Church
than it was for Prof. Davis
because they have found “among
the bishops those who at least do
not disavow them; who, if
necessary, protect them from
attacks from above and below;
who at least do not stand in the
way of their work, perhaps even
esteem, understand, use and
promote it.”
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