Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic

In this timely and urgent work, Hans Kung reminds us every minute the nations of the world spend 1.8 million dollars on military armaments; every hour 1,500 children die of hunger-related causes; every decade, if present global warming trends continue, the temperature of the earth's atmosphere could rise dramatically with a resultant rise in sea levels that would have disastrous consequences, particularly for coastal areas of all the earth's land masses.

The author of twenty books, Hans Kung served as a principal architect of the theological agenda of the historic Second Vatican Council. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Ecumenical Theology at the University of Tubingen and President of the Global Ethic Foundation in Germany and Switzerland. He was the drafter of the Global Ethic Declaration of the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1993, and is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century.