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Yes to a Global Ethic

Name: Yes to a Global Ethic
Author: Hans KÃ¼ng
ISBN: 9780826409072

by Hans KÃ¼ng

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Global Ethics is a term closely identified with the works of Hans Kung. In Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic he showed why the world, if it is to survive, needs a consensus concerning basic ethical values among those of all religions and no religion.

In 1993, the Parliament of the World's Religions approved a "Declaration toward a Global Ethic," drafted in large measure by Hans Kung. Now Yes to a Global Ethic offers the witness of leading world figures in the worlds of politics, culture, and religion to a new global awareness and to new ethical consensus.

From the worlds of politics and culture come Ireland's president Mary Robinson, West Germany's former chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Jerusalem's former mayor Teddy Kollek, and Nobel Prize recipients Desmond Tutu, Rigoberta Menchu, and Aung San Suu Kyi.

From the world's religions come representatives from Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, including Elie Wiesel, the chief rabbi of France, Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and Cardinals Franz Konig, Joseph Bernardin, and Pablo Evaristo Arns.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

In 1993, the Parliament of the World's Religions produced a Declaration of a Global Ethic that urged tolerance, global economic and social justice and ecological stability. On the basis of that statement, prolific theologian Kung gathered a variety of voices from the world's religious traditions to reflect on the meaning(s) of "a global ethic." Each writer was invited to contribute an essay, a letter, a creed or a poem as a meditation upon his or her understanding of the Parliament's Declaration. Thus, Patriarch Bartholomew I examines the "reconciliation between the nations and the peace of the world" while Hindu writer Dileep Pagdaonkar works to "redefine tolerance." Missing from this collection, however, are the powerful voices of Paul Knitter and Leonard Swidler, both of whom have been actively involved in articulating tenets of the global ethic. Despite this, Kung's work in drawing together so many disparate thinkers into a single affirmation of unity is indeed deserving of praise. (June)