We have lost a rigorous scholar of religious understanding and the most imaginative and influential theologians in the twentieth century. His critical thinking defines a major trajectory in the current debate on the future of the Church. His views on God, papalism, and the doctrine of infallibility have profoundly shaped the Catholic world of ideas.

As the founder of the global ethics movement initiated by the Parliament of world religions in 1993, he was a leading public intellectual in our fragmented and yet inevitably globalizing world.

He was a mentor for those dedicated to the pursuit of universal peace through dialogue.

Tu Weiming

Director

Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies
Peking University