Word: bingen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hitting at symbols of the American presence in West Germany. The first four exploded at U.S. Army bases near Frankfurt. Two others damaged the Düsseldorf offices of U.S. computer firms, IBM and Control Data Corp. Then came a blast at the German-American Institute in Tübingen. In a letter to the West German press, the Revolutionary Cells, a leftist terrorist group, announced that the explosions were a mere foretaste of what President Ronald Reagan can expect when he arrives in West Germany this week. Said the letter: "This is the start of a noisy, eventful...
...Netherlands for questioning as a possible heretic and then declared that West Germany's Father Hans Küng had no license to practice as a "Catholic" theologian. Since then Küng has been moved from the Cath olic faculty at the University of Tübingen into an unattached religion professorship. As for Schillebeeckx, whose belief in the divinity of Christ has been questioned, the Vatican has quietly decided to take no action, at least for now, thus signaling that there is still some lee way for liberal thinking in the era of Pope John Paul...
Liberal Catholics are also angry with John Paul's Vatican for declaring that Father Hans Küng no longer be considered a "Catholic theologian." This order forced Küng's official removal last April from the Catholic theology faculty at the University of Tübingen, where he still teaches as a free-floating professor. Küng was in the U.S. and Britain during John Paul's visit. The Pope never mentioned him by name, but in a meeting with theologians he defended the duty of church authorities to preserve divine truth. Elsewhere...
When Hans Kung arrived last week for his first lecture after the University of Tübingen's holiday break, the classroom was jammed with 300 students and onlookers. Another 300 next door listened in via loudspeaker. The Vatican may have declared him unfit to be considered a Roman Catholic theologian, but Father Kung was back at his Tübingen lectern, at which he has taught since 1960 and now occupies as bestselling author, West German celebrity and a focus of Catholic theological rebellion...
...things stood last week, Kung is a supposedly verbotener theologian who remains a member of Tübingen's Catholic faculty and head of its Institute for Ecumenical Research. But in compliance with the concordat, Kung will no longer officially instruct would-be priests or those training to teach Catholic theology, formerly 60% of his students. They may sit in on his lectures, but will not receive academic credit. The minister-president of Baden-Württemberg state, Lothar Spath, plans a "careful legal examination" of the concordat to determine whether Kung can remain on the Catholic faculty at Tübingen...