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Article: The Catholic Church: A Short History. (books: Birmingham tragedies).(Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- October 24, 2001
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The Catholic Church: A Short History. By Hans Kung. Translated by John Bowden. Modern Library, 144 pp., $19.95.
A GROWING NUMBER of works by Catholic authors such as Garry Wills, Eugene Kennedy and Donald Cozzens, as well as books by numerous feminist writers, call for greater honesty, regarding the problems within the Catholic Church. One of the most familiar and insistent of these voices calling for church reform is Hans Kung's. Kung launched his theological career in the late 1950s by boldly arguing that the teaching of Karl Barth on justification could be reconciled with the doctrine of the Council of Trent.
Serving as a consultant to Vatican II ...