Challenges to Islam, Christianity and Judaism in today’s Global Crisis

Challenges to Islam, Christianity and Judaism in today’s Global Crisis

By Professor Hans Kung

November 26, 2008

In response to ever new and great challenges in world history the community of faith has undergone a whole series of religious changes, indeed in the longer term revolutionary paradigm shifts. This concept I learned from a historian of sciences, Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962): What changed in the Copernican Revolution? The sun, the moon, the stars remained the same, but we changed: our way to look at them, our world view – the paradigm: "The entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques, and so on, shared by a given community." I applied the paradigm theory to the history first of the church then of the different religions. What changed e.g. in the Reformation? God, Christ, the Spirit for Christians remained the same. But the view of the believers changed: the paradigm, the models.

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