Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection

by Hans Küng and Hans Kung

Book Overview

Now, forty years since its original publication, Hans Kung's groundbreaking study acclaimed as a model for ecumenical discussion has become a classic work. Looking at the doctrine of justification as understood by the Protestant theologian Karl Barth in comparison to classic Roman Catholic theology, Kung found that the two had similar ideas about the main elements of justification. He argued there is fundamental agreement between Catholicism and Barth's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664243649
• ISBN13: 9780664243647
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.