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...Guide for the 20th Century Pagan (Macmillan; $9.95). In September Doubleday will issue the English version of dissident Roman Catholic Theologian Hans Küng's latest, which despite its 850 pages is a huge bestseller in West Germany. The title: Does God Exist...
...appointed to those faculties. In addition, if the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith decides a professor is not orthodox, Baum will handle official discipline. He concurred in the recent decision to investigate Belgian Theologian Edward Schillebeeckx and to banish West Germany's Hans Küng from a Roman Catholic faculty. The church, Baum insisted to TIME'S Wilton Wynn, has a "just claim" on its theologians: "Our task is to present the message of Christ as transmitted by the Roman Catholic Church. The public has the right to know clearly what this message...
...ng has been walking a tightrope for years-attempting to remain a Catholic theologian while denying basic Catholic doctrine (i.e., the divinity of Christ, papal infallibility, the sacrificial nature of the Mass, the efficacy of the priesthood). küng himself gave the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith no choice...
...serious scholar, küng has never "denied outright" any doctrines "central to the Catholic faith," but has rather sought to critically examine and clarify them for his contemporaries. The real struggle is that between those in the hierarchy who seek to maintain rigid, male, celibate control over the "People of God" and those who seek genuine dialogue, reconciliation and a Christian ministry truly shared...
...Father Hans küng and Father Edward Schillebeeckx have learned, the more the Catholic Church changes, the more it remains the same. Vatican II was supposed to give scope to intellectual freedom, ecumenism and concern for human rights. Nevertheless, the marching orders for Catholics remain: Pray, pay, obey...