For the “Global Ethic Project”, Küng's work on the book
“Does God exist” (1978) laid the groundwork.
1. A constructive but critical discussion with the modern critics of religion (Marx, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Freud) led to the conclusion that, despite different views of belief in God,
a coalition of believers and non-believers is possible
on the ethical plane.
2. As an alternative to Nihilism, there is an original, a basic trust, responsible to reason, consisting in an affirmation, a “Yes!”, to reality and to the meaningfulness of life, and which is possible even without belief in God. This basic trust is the foundation for an authenticly human, moral way of living.
3. The traditional position of Christian theologians, who disregard the world's religions as being either pure unbelief or at best theologically irrelevant, needs to be overcome in
a constructive inter-religious dialogue.
Key publications from this stage
