biography
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Roman Catholic theologian, born in Sursee, NC Switzerland. A professor at Tübingen (1960–96), he has written extensively for fellow theologians and for lay people. His questioning of received interpretations of Catholic doctrine, as in Justification (1965), The Church (1967), and Infallible? An Inquiry (1971), and his presentations of the Christian faith, as in On Being a Christian (1977), Does God Exist? (1980), and Eternal Life? (1984), aroused controversy both in Germany and with the Vatican authorities, who withdrew his licence to teach as a Catholic theologian in 1979. He defended himself in Why I Am Still a Christian (1987). Later works include Yes to a Global Ethic (1996). |
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