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Article: Yes to a Global Ethic.(Review)
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- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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Edited by Hans Kung. Tr. John Bowden. New York: Continuum, 1996 (orig.: Ja zum Weltethos: Perspektiven fur die Suche nach Orientierung [Munich: R. Piper, 1995]). Pp. 239. $16.95, paper.
We are indebted to Kung for many things, especially at the present moment his "Projekt Weltethos." Over the past decade, Kung has been prodding people worldwide to acknowledge that we have entered upon a new historical epoch, that we are confronted with a fundamental world crisis of interrelated dimensions - economic, political, ecological - whose proportions and character have never before been experienced. If we are to surmount this crisis, we must develop a moral consensus whose ...