A Second Reformation, For Both Catholics & Protestants

Hans Küng is a Roman Catholic priest who believes that Protestantism must undertake a second reformation if the Christian church is ever to be made one, but that is by far the lesser half of his thought. Küng also believes that his own church must reform drastically, with reunion in mind; in one of the year's most important, and most discussed, religious books, he argues the case for a Roman Catholic reformation from within, and makes some concrete proposals for the agenda of next fall's Second Vatican Council.

Küng teaches theology at the University of Tübingen in West Germany, and is regarded...

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