My Life

Via deaconesses to Jesus

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Sister Renate and Sister Ludwine, both from the deaconess house in Lachen, led my brother Klaus and me to the Christian faith in the mid-1960s (the picture was taken during a visit in February 2009)

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Favorite Places

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On the go

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Books published

Books by Thomas Schirrmacher in chronlogical order (With short commentaries) As author Das Mißverständnis des Emil Brunner: Emil Brunners Bibliologie als Ursache für das Scheitern seiner Ekklesiologie. Theologische Untersuchungen zu Weltmission und Gemeindebau. ed. by Hans-Georg Wünch and Thomas Schirrmacher. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Weltmission und Gemeindebau: Lörrach, 1982. 54 pp. [The misunderstanding of Emil Brunner] A study and critique of Emil Brunner's ecclesiology and of the bibliology and hermeneutics of dialectical theology. Mohammed: Prophet aus der Wüste. Schwengeler: Berneck (CH), 1984(1), 1986(2), 1990(3), 1996(4). VTR: Nürnberg, 2006(5). 120 pp. [Muhammad] A short biography of the founder of Islam and an introduction into Islam. Theodor Christlieb und seine Missionstheologie. ...

Fostering Culture War 2.0

Why the Manhattan Declaration is correct A statement for the Institute for Ethics and Values, Giessen Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. theol. Thomas Schirrmacher The original pdf of the institute in English is here, the original German version on the institutes webpage is here. You can read the Manhattan Delaration here. The so-called ‘culture war’ was a dispute between the Roman Catholic Church, under Pope Pius IX, and the Kingdom of Prussia and Imperial Germany, under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, from 1871 to 1887. The intention was to drive back the public influence of the church with the aid of legislation. What was meant by the ...