Second Vatican Council (1962–1965):
The awakening and renewal of the Church
1960 named professor in Tübingen.
1962 named official theological advisor to the Council (peritus) by Pope John XXIII.
1963 appointed founding director
of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Tübingen.
Along the lines of the Council, Hans Küng works for reform within the Church, for Christian Ecumenism and for an opening up to the world religions.
The Catholic Church’s insistence on papal infallibility and the controversial
birth-control encyclical
“Humanae vitae” of Pope Paul VI. led Hans Küng to initiate
the critical inquiry “Infallible?”.
Key publications from this stage
