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Absolutely one of my favorite books of all time."Serious theology does not claim any elitist, privileged access to truth: It cannot in any case be meant to be intelligible only to believers [...] Serious theology does not claim any complete, total possession of the truth, nor any monopoly of truth: It cannot in any case be a comprehensive ideological system, worked out to the last detail, which would ultimately render superfluous any further reflections on the part of sociologists, psychologists...
Does God Exist? An Answer for Today
Hans Küng
Pretty comprehensive and clear treatment of the past 300 years of thinking about God. Predictably weak on negative (& liberation) theology, but still an excellent resource for undergrad philosophy of religion courses
I don't feel qualified to comment extensively on this book, as I am no philosopher. I've learned a lot from it. I don't think his argument for the existence of God is particularly convincing. Perhaps it is not meant to be, but only to allow one permission to have faith in God (which most days I do anyway). But it is engaging, and relatively accessible. It's given me much to consider.
This is a really interesting book… it took me a lot longer than I expected, and that is a good thing.First, this book is from 1978, which gave a nice window into the past. Some thinkers (like Hegel, Marx) are less popular now, but that doesn’t diminish the value of the discussion. Lamenting about people lost in “modern times” and turning away from God seem, on the other, to be from all times.I especially liked the really thorough discussion and approach on engaging with philosophy. About 2/3 of
Difficult, did not finish, will someday
1. This feels like four or five books crammed into one, so it's not always clear how different sections fit with others and with the whole. But this book is pretty good, and Küng is obviously a brilliant guy. 2. Whether the book is convincing to skeptical, agnostic, and atheist readers is another question. My own view is that it ends in kind of a stalemate. Küng's "Yes" to the question of "Does God Exist" is an appealing one, probably one of the better apologetic defenses for belief in God I've
Another one of Küng’s “weighty tomes,” this one being a 1980 follow-up to his 1974 “On Being A Christian.” On Being, which I first read in the late ‘70s was actually one of the two books that initiated (much to the would-be disappointment of Küng if he knew) my regress (to borrow C.S. Lewis’s term) into atheism (the other was Brothers Karamazov). I do admire Küng as a thinker, but also vehemently disagree with most of his conclusions. All that is lead up to me saying that this work is not among
This book was not an easy read, but I found it very engaging. Rather than "Does God Exist? An Answer for Today" the book could easily be titled "Who is God?" It's focus is not so much apologetic but a historical and philosophical analysis of how we think about God, beginning with the Enlightenment and working through to the present time. Küng is to be commended for treating the critiques of Nietzsche, Feurbach, Freud and Marx with seriousness and respect, and not merely as critics to be dispense...
The Jesuit institution of higher learning from which I graduated required a certain number of theology courses. So a good father laid this bulky tome onto us, and yes, I read the whole thing. Kung tirelessly and tiresomely goes through all the arguments in favor of the existence of God and when it comes time for him to bring it all home and hit the big home run guess what? It's all just a matter of faith after all. Wow. Of its type, I can't fault it as a theology classic, but it will only persua...
This book took me 5 months to read on and off, not because it was boring -it was anything but- or because it was too difficult -though sections I do admit were complex and hard to comprehend, it was immensely intelligible-, no, I took my time with this one because I wanted to savour each and every page. There was so much to discover in every paragraph, or to re-think -lots to re-think indeed-that I couldn't manage more than a few pages at a time, followed by sometimes days to digest its wisdom.
Astonishing representation of the main Western philosophers since Descartes. Unique in clarity and fairness to each one of them weather believer or atheist. His answer to the question of the title is "yes" but his openness and respect to philosophy as a major human endeavor make his book a pleasure to read whatever your own answer to the question is. Strongly recommended.
This quite interesting book addresses two main and fundamental questions on theology and on philosophy alike: Does God exist? and Who is God? Its intended readership is also twofold: those who are ''doubtful about their belief'' and those who are ''doubtful about their doubting.'' Thus, not all theists will like this book, and not all atheists will want to reject it out of hand. A compelling as well as daunting exercise of reflection...Reading it, one discovers that this book is a labor of love....
