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Ratzinger did not always see things that way. During the Second Vatican Council he was the most eloquent member of a troika of progessive German theological experts (with Karl Rahner and Hans Küng). In that era the reform-minded priest called the office he will now head "detrimental to the faith." By the 1970s, however, he gradually came to question the church's leftward drift. He warned against accepting "tenets merely because they happen to be fashionable at the moment." In 1975 he called the previous decade "a period of ecclesiastical decadence in which the people...
...Holy Office was charged with matters of apostasy, heresy and the regulation of doctrinal matters regarding faith and morals. It once acted as censor too. At various times Ottaviani tried to silence a Who's Who of 20th century Catholic theologians, including Karl Rahner, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Yves Congar and John Courtney Murray...
...singularly curious and inept of TIME to select Hans Küng to comment on the qualifications for the next Pope. Küng questions the fundamental bases of the papacy-its infallibility and primacy. Küng has been judged by such a competent theologian as Karl Rahner to be little different from a liberal Protestant in numerous of his opinions about the church. In fact, Küng has often sailed very close to objective heresy. Great choice indeed...
...thinks that the bishops simply misunderstand his method. Like Jesuit Karl Rahner and other contemporary theologians, he starts his Christology "from below," with the man Jesus, and works upward toward his divinity. The council dogmas started "from above," with ideas about God's essence. Church officials, however, are convinced that content, not method, is at stake. Some censure from the German bishops or the Vatican could result...
...teachings he never taught, to a mandate he never issued, and to a claim that he was God's son which he never presumed for himself." When it came out in Germany in 1972, the book was attacked by Christian thinkers of all varieties; Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner condemned it as a "frontal and total attack" on Christ. Augstein, however, has merely selected and exaggerated ideas propounded by some eminently respectable German theologians...