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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > global studies > global governance and world order > global religion > key people in global religion > Hans Küng
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Hans Küng  

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  • Hans Küng is a Swiss theologian and Roman Catholic priest and the author of numerous books on Christianity, world religions, and global ethics. He was a professor in the Catholic faculty at the University of Tübingen from 1960 until 1979, when his license to teach Catholic theology was rescinded by the Vatican. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Küng, Hans (b. 1928)]

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